the fool (reversed) · archive: something

163 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-47, 85 and 100-101, and 2 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
THE FOOL (REVERSED) · BARS 46-47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 10, 14, 18, 26, 27 and 30 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 36 are fills, 17 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-80.

PART E
PART P
PART S4
PART AV
CHORUS
PART BY
PART CK
BREAK 2
15 groovesAGS17AVBYP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the fool (reversed)?

178 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 fool (reversed) hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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 fool (reversed)?

24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 10, 14, 18, 26, 27 and 30 more.

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