Sanitize · Embryon

119 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 9 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SANITIZE · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 22, 24, 29, 33 and 11 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 17 are fills, 6 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART B
PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesKS10BAP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sanitize?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sanitize hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Sanitize?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 22, 24, 29, 33 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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