Six hundred cubic centimeters · On Broken Wings

86 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 29-31 and 33-36, and 6 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SIX HUNDRED CUBIC CENTIMETERS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 32, 44, 46, 58, 62 and 2 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 8 are fills, 15 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S3
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBDS3QFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Six hundred cubic centimeters?

200 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 Six hundred cubic centimeters hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Six hundred cubic centimeters?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 32, 44, 46, 58, 62 and 2 more.

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