Specter · Bad Omens

113 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-80 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SPECTER · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 27, 29 and 6 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 54 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-80.

CHORUS
PART I
PART S5
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS8DQIS5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Specter?

180 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Specter hard to play on drums?

44 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Specter?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 27, 29 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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