Taunt · Lovejoy

102 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
TAUNT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 36, 40 and 11 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 5 sections: 79 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

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

Questions

What BPM is Taunt?

188 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 Taunt hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 36, 40 and 11 more.

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