Sonic and the Secret Rings · No Way Through

133 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:55
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 13-14, 17-18 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SONIC AND THE SECRET RINGS · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 16 sections: 74 keep time, 37 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AT
PART V
PART S12
OUTRO
11 groovesKVACAOS12+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sonic and the Secret Rings?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sonic and the Secret Rings hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

133 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sonic and the Secret Rings?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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