Revenge Directive · Contention

82 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24 and 66-81 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
REVENGE DIRECTIVE · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 28, 40, 48 and 56.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 6 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFGHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Revenge Directive?

170 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 Revenge Directive hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Revenge Directive?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 28, 40, 48 and 56.

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