Swamped · Gaijin

78 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 53, and 6 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SWAMPED · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 48, 50, 52, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 4 sections: 45 keep time, 10 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-27.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swamped?

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

Is Swamped hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Swamped?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 44, 48, 50, 52, 64 and 4 more.

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