refr · pojuke

74 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
74
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 59-61, and 1 more place -- 16.9% 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
REFR · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 and 6 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGBJN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is refr?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is refr hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 refr?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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