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60 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:14
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 44-46 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SPV4 · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 18 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 6 sections: 20 keep time, 24 are fills and 11 are stops.

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

Questions

What BPM is SPV4?

195 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 SPV4 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 SPV4?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 19 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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