slam idea · double j

21 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 0:28 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
21
LENGTH
0:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 178 BPM
SLAM IDEA · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

21 bars across 4 sections: 17 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is slam idea?

178 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 slam idea hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

21 bars, about 0:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 21 BARS ANALYSED
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