steely dfanm · Discomfort

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-39, 41-48 and 90-97 -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STEELY DFANM · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 24, 76, 78, 79, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 78-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 11 are fills, 34 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFAIJP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is steely dfanm?

120 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 steely dfanm hard to play on drums?

53 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 steely dfanm?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 24, 76, 78, 79, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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