test · The Art Of Insanity

148 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 15-16 and 23-24, and 13 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
TEST · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 60, 117, 118, 119, 120 and 5 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 117-124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 109 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-148.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesDFGCS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is test?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 test 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?

148 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 60, 117, 118, 119, 120 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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