START · locofrank

132 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 26 and 36-38, and 3 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
START · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 16, 27 and 25 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 63 keep time, 31 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART A
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEZADLQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is START?

210 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 START hard to play on drums?

59 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 START?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 16, 27 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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