Reason · DGM

299 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-80, 83-85 and 87-89, and 15 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 260 BPM
REASON · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 18 and 40 more.

LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

299 bars across 25 sections: 183 keep time, 46 are fills, 33 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-179.

PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
12 groovesVHQCK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reason?

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

Is Reason hard to play on drums?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Reason?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 17, 18 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 299 BARS ANALYSED
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