Sound System · Operation Ivy

101 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 28 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SOUND SYSTEM · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 100 and 101.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 99-101 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-69.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sound System?

180 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 Sound System hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 9 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

How many fills are in Sound System?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 100 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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