Something greater · Kiowa

75 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 1:25 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
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-51 and 53-55 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
SOMETHING GREATER · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 57, 63, 71 and 75.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKGCDS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something greater?

212 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Something greater hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Something greater?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 57, 63, 71 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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