resacon · humanity

290 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 9 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
RESACON · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 51 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 20 sections: 163 keep time, 57 are fills, 27 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-141.

PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AB
PART AE
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART AL
OUTRO 2
16 groovesPGMAUAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is resacon?

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

Is resacon hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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 resacon?

27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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