split · Thrown

75 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 171 BPM
SPLIT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 75.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 7 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBKS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is split?

171 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 split hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 split?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 75.

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