SPINE · Wesghost

102 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 18-25 and 42-57, and 3 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SPINE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 73 and 89.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 16 sections: 49 keep time, 3 are fills, 28 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-64.

BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
10 groovesDHBS4C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SPINE?

150 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 SPINE hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in SPINE?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 73 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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