Spiral Out (Keep Going) · Heaven Pierce Her

56 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 1:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 1 more place -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SPIRAL OUT (KEEP GOING) · BARS 9-10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 6 sections: 34 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

CHORUS
PART M
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesHPMNS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spiral Out (Keep Going)?

150 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Spiral Out (Keep Going) hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Spiral Out (Keep Going)?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 7 more.

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