Son of a serpent · Thank you scientis

279 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 157 BPM, 5:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
279
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-74, 77-79 and 125-126, and 5 more places -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
SON OF A SERPENT · BAR 73
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 52, 56, 64, 72, 76, 80 and 76 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

279 bars across 31 sections: 129 keep time, 82 are fills, 7 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART BW
PART S29
OUTRO 2
25 groovesAUANBCDSAE+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Son of a serpent?

157 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Son of a serpent hard to play on drums?

76 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?

279 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 126 exercises over 41 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Son of a serpent?

33 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 52, 56, 64, 72, 76, 80 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 279 BARS ANALYSED
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