Red · Leprous

127 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59, 61-65 and 67, and 3 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
RED · BARS 61-62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-81.

PART B
PART K
PART P
PART S5
CHORUS
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAFS9PBAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red?

110 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Red hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Red?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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