Reason Rejected · Disavowed

241 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 17 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
REASON REJECTED · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 68 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 19 sections: 115 keep time, 76 are fills, 7 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesCRHS19AO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reason Rejected?

215 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 Rejected hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Rejected?

26 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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