SPECIALZ (Band Ver.) · King Gnu

112 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 15 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SPECIALZ (BAND VER.) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 17, 24, 25, 29, 37 and 9 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-69.

PART B
PART I
PART E
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesVIEOB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SPECIALZ (Band Ver.)?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 SPECIALZ (Band Ver.) hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 SPECIALZ (Band Ver.)?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 17, 24, 25, 29, 37 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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