Red Sea · Theocracy

657 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 21:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
657
LENGTH
21:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 37-42 and 45, and 20 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
RED SEA · BAR 29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

36 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 8, 35, 43, 51, 91, 131 and 72 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

32 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

657 bars across 53 sections: 355 keep time, 78 are fills, 107 are stops and 65 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-83.

PART I
CHORUS 4
PART S36
35 groovesUIASS36CZ+30Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Sea?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sea hard to play on drums?

51 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?

657 bars, about 21:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 178 exercises over 47 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 Red Sea?

36 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 8, 35, 43, 51, 91, 131 and 72 more.

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