Sense · BAND-MAID

168 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-21 and 42-48, and 6 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SENSE · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 49, 53, 57, 69, 83 and 7 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 23 sections: 107 keep time, 13 are fills, 10 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-82.

COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART AB
14 groovesBNES1AB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sense?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sense hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Sense?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 49, 53, 57, 69, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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