Signs · Five man electric band

156 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 39 and 41-45, and 15 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SIGNS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 37, 57, 65, 91, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 14 sections: 91 keep time, 11 are fills, 30 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesJGBMN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Signs?

170 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 Signs hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Signs?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 29, 37, 57, 65, 91, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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