Red Walls Behind Closed Doors · So This Is Suffering

160 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 5 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
RED WALLS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS · BAR 114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 32, 43 and 27 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 22 sections: 90 keep time, 33 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-95.

CHORUS 2
PART AQ
PART AU
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART BR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesWACBBWAU+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Walls Behind Closed Doors?

118 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Walls Behind Closed Doors hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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 Walls Behind Closed Doors?

26 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 32, 43 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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