Red · Sammy Hagar

160 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 26-31 and 62-67, and 1 more place -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
RED · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 68, 80, 81, 82, 90 and 11 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 80-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 90-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 21 sections: 111 keep time, 17 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-55.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART N
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBCVIAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red?

160 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 Red 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 68, 80, 81, 82, 90 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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