Siphon · NULL

49 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 1 more place -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SIPHON · BARS 18-19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 5 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 3 sections: 36 keep time and 11 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Siphon?

155 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 Siphon hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Siphon?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 5 more.

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