Standalone (Drop D) · fleshwater

43 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 1:01 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
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
43
LENGTH
1:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-21, 26-28 and 40 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
STANDALONE (DROP D) · BARS 18-19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 16 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 21-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

43 bars across 5 sections: 17 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

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

Questions

What BPM is Standalone (Drop D)?

168 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 Standalone (Drop D) hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

43 bars, about 1:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Standalone (Drop D)?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 43 BARS ANALYSED
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