Specialz · King Gnu

41 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 1:24 of playing, on ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:24
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 1 more place -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SPECIALZ · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 5 sections: 32 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-41.

PART C
PART B
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesEBCS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Specialz?

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 hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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