Squall2 · 04 Limited sazabys

153 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-44 and 46-51, and 7 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SQUALL2 · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 13 sections: 92 keep time, 36 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-132.

PART B
PART J
PART M
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRBABMJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Squall2?

200 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 Squall2 hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Squall2?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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