Speed · Billy Idol

189 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 11-21 and 23-29, and 22 more places -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SPEED · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 10, 43, 91 and 141.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars: 184 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-140.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Speed?

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 Speed hard to play on drums?

39 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Speed?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 10, 43, 91 and 141.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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