SGD · RTF

111 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 42-44, and 2 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SGD · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 45 and 18 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 25 are fills, 11 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBAGAHG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SGD?

195 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 SGD hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 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 SGD?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 41, 45 and 18 more.

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