Tarantula Girl · Violent Vira

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-48 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TARANTULA GIRL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 6 sections: 24 keep time, 1 is a fill, 62 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

PART S2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS5FS2AS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tarantula Girl?

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 Tarantula Girl hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tarantula Girl?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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