Start Today · Gorilla Biscuits

52 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 6, and 10 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
START TODAY · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 16, 33, 36, 38, 40 and 3 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 6 sections: 30 keep time, 9 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Start Today?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Start Today hard to play on drums?

64 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Start Today?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 16, 33, 36, 38, 40 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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