Recreant · Will Ramos & Nik Nocturnal

135 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RECREANT · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 18 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 18 sections: 59 keep time, 24 are fills, 28 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-43.

PART C
CHORUS
PART R
PART Y
PART AC
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AS
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFRAACC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Recreant?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Recreant hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Recreant?

22 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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