Strange Illusion · Supersonic Dragon Wagon

100 bars, 6:21, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 29-31 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 63 BPM
STRANGE ILLUSION · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 32, 36, 48 and 11 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-26.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGRMCJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strange Illusion?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Strange Illusion hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Strange Illusion?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 32, 36, 48 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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