Test 33 · Unknown

171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 22-23 and 26, and 4 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TEST 33 · BARS 58-59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 19, 27, 38, 46, 47, 48 and 44 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 46-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 12 sections: 88 keep time, 50 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-74.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJDADAIBN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Test 33?

180 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 Test 33 hard to play on drums?

67 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?

171 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Test 33?

12 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 19, 27, 38, 46, 47, 48 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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