The Defier · Moondial

173 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-48, 125-131 and 133-148 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE DEFIER · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 30, 39 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 25 sections: 106 keep time, 18 are fills, 13 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-148.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
18 groovesNKJSL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Defier?

140 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 The Defier 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Defier?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 30, 39 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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