Ten Seconds · Blaze

116 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 15 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
TEN SECONDS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-25.

PART B
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS6ICFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ten Seconds?

190 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Ten Seconds hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ten Seconds?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

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