Red Sector A · Rush

145 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 8, and 12 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
RED SECTOR A · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 30, 44, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 28 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 14 sections: 88 keep time, 34 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

CHORUS
PART C
VERSE
PART L
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBANIXC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Sector A?

118 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 Sector A hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Red Sector A?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 30, 44, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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