The Great Commandment · Camouflage

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 19-27 and 29-36, and 10 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE GREAT COMMANDMENT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 57 and 67.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 4 sections: 118 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-130.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Great Commandment?

120 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 Great Commandment hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Great Commandment?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 57 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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