Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion · Her Words Kill

188 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SIR, THIS IS A CUTTHROAT FASHION · BAR 163
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 85, 117, 125, 131, 133 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 23 sections: 133 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-178.

PART N
PART Z
PART O
PART AL
PART AU
PART BC
CHORUS
22 groovesBGZNOAL+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 85, 117, 125, 131, 133 and 6 more.

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