SANITY CHECK SW EXCLUSIVE · boanthropy

59 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 20-22, and 2 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SANITY CHECK SW EXCLUSIVE · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 35, 41, 55 and 1 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 8 sections: 23 keep time, 7 are fills, 13 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-8.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SANITY CHECK SW EXCLUSIVE?

155 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 SANITY CHECK SW EXCLUSIVE hard to play on drums?

48 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?

59 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 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 SANITY CHECK SW EXCLUSIVE?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 35, 41, 55 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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