Reptile · Periphery

473 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 11:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
473
LENGTH
11:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 71-86 and 143-149, and 1 more place -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
REPTILE · BAR 73
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 56 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 23-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

473 bars across 28 sections: 177 keep time, 63 are fills, 22 are stops and 176 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 201-229.

CHORUS
PART BW
BREAK 3
24 groovesS28BOBWWCQ+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reptile?

210 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Reptile hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

473 bars, about 11:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 101 exercises over 40 sittings, about 22 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 Reptile?

14 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 56 more.

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