Spoiler · hyper

174 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 59-79 and 164-174 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SPOILER · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 127, 135, 151, 157 and 158.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 151 · LANDS ON BAR 152

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 19 sections: 96 keep time, 8 are fills, 26 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-79.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART J
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesES10SCJ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spoiler?

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 Spoiler hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Spoiler?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 127, 135, 151, 157 and 158.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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