Reaper · Rotting Out

69 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 53-59 and 61-68 -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
REAPER · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 27, 29 and 7 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 19 keep time, 13 are fills, 19 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-26.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesELS2S1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reaper?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Reaper hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Reaper?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 16, 27, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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