Substance · OPTION Z

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:35 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
97
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 22-25 and 42-45 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUBSTANCE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 47, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 14 sections: 52 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-19.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART P
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK 4
11 groovesFQES14M+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Substance?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Substance hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 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 Substance?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 47, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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