Slamming 2 · Deadly Giant

83 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 15, and 9 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SLAMMING 2 · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 5 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 14 sections: 48 keep time, 11 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-83.

PART D
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCDAOJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slamming 2?

190 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 Slamming 2 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Slamming 2?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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