Recursive Patterns · Car Bomb

112 bars at 229 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
229 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 99-103 and 105-107 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 229 BPM
RECURSIVE PATTERNS · BAR 101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 26 and 27 more.

LOOP · 229 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 229 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 229 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 33 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AR
PART AY
PART BD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBGBQARAY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Recursive Patterns?

229 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 Recursive Patterns hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Recursive Patterns?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 26 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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