THE DISASTER · Spite

187 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-67, 98-104 and 107, and 3 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
THE DISASTER · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 32, 33, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 33 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 17 sections: 97 keep time, 40 are fills and 35 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART P
12 groovesAPRGAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE DISASTER?

187 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is THE DISASTER hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 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 DISASTER?

27 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 32, 33, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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