Struggle without reward · Assailant

208 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 43-49 and 51-57, and 6 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
STRUGGLE WITHOUT REWARD · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 58, 90, 110, 118, 128 and 7 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 12 sections: 145 keep time, 13 are fills, 23 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-89.

PART C
PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFLCDS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Struggle without reward?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Struggle without reward hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Struggle without reward?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 58, 90, 110, 118, 128 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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