The Boston Drama · typecast

200 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-14 and 22-23, and 23 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE BOSTON DRAMA · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 45 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 33-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 15 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 51 are fills, 14 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-155.

PART B
PART H
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQBFHS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boston Drama?

160 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 Boston Drama hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Boston Drama?

12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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