Tectonic Shift · Anthropos

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 9 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TECTONIC SHIFT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 10, 16, 26, 34, 38 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 15 are fills, 10 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-87.

CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART AA
PART Y
PART S
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesAFYSK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tectonic Shift?

140 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 Tectonic Shift hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Tectonic Shift?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 10, 16, 26, 34, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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