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Speed · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 6 OF 13
Fill at bar 10 (a small one)
168 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Speed on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-122, toms through bars 123-124 and snare through bars 125-189.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Speed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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