Shiny tech · Kevin Macleod

128 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 58-62 and 73-77, and 1 more place -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SHINY TECH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 20 sections: 101 keep time, 1 is a fill and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-118.

PART E
VERSE
PART K
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
13 groovesCEJKB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shiny tech?

140 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 Shiny tech hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Shiny tech?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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