Sheep · Mt. Joy

137 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 24 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHEEP · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 9 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a fill, 14 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-88.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCES1S8B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sheep?

160 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 Sheep hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sheep?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

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