Statement Of Intent · BIS

154 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-36 and 70-80, and 2 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
STATEMENT OF INTENT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 37, 63, 64, 65, 81 and 4 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 12 sections: 95 keep time, 10 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Statement Of Intent?

155 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 Statement Of Intent hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Statement Of Intent?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 37, 63, 64, 65, 81 and 4 more.

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