TAPDAT · Chiodos

167 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 103 and 105, and 3 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TAPDAT · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 5, 24, 36, 37, 41 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 23 sections: 74 keep time, 21 are fills, 43 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-62.

PART I
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART AN
PART AQ
PART BD
PART AG
PART S18
PART BX
22 groovesYBXIAJBD+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TAPDAT?

160 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 TAPDAT hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in TAPDAT?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 5, 24, 36, 37, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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