sack of rats · Geist

4 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 0:06 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
4
LENGTH
0:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 3 and 4.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 3-4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

4 bars: 3 are fills and 1 is a stop.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sack of rats?

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 sack of rats 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.

How long is the drum part?

4 bars, about 0:06 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 sack of rats?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 3 and 4.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 4 BARS ANALYSED
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