running (do not modify) · glass beach

17 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 0:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
17
LENGTH
0:26
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12 -- 17.6% 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
RUNNING (DO NOT MODIFY) · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 2 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

17 bars across 2 sections: 6 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-6.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is running (do not modify)?

160 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 running (do not modify) hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

17 bars, about 0:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 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 running (do not modify)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 17 BARS ANALYSED
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