Technical Difficulties · Racer X

134 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 75-94, 97-102 and 105-106 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES · BARS 75-76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 20, 52, 53, 54, 96 and 3 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 105 keep time, 9 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-94.

PART A
PART G
PART D
PART L
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQDPGL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Technical Difficulties?

130 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 Technical Difficulties hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

134 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 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 Technical Difficulties?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 20, 52, 53, 54, 96 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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