Strong Reflection · Mars Red Sky

158 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 25 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STRONG REFLECTION · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 7 sections: 94 keep time, 27 are fills, 28 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-158.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strong Reflection?

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 Strong Reflection hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Strong Reflection?

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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