Reservoir · Pup

135 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 58-65 and 104-110 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
RESERVOIR · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31 and 19 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 17 sections: 71 keep time, 25 are fills, 12 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART F
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJNFWAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reservoir?

172 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 Reservoir hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Reservoir?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 31 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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