The Arcadion "Give It All" · Final Fantasy XIV

101 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59-65 and 67-72 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE ARCADION "GIVE IT ALL" · BARS 59-60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 36, 37, 38, 46, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 13 sections: 74 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART A
PART D
PART H
PART J
PART P
PART K
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
12 groovesVHJPD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Arcadion "Give It All"?

162 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 The Arcadion "Give It All" hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Arcadion "Give It All"?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 36, 37, 38, 46, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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