The Grip Tightens · Revocation 1

238 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
THE GRIP TIGHTENS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 38 and 16 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 26 sections: 168 keep time, 22 are fills, 14 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 179-197.

PART G
CHORUS
PART V
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
13 groovesJGTQV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Grip Tightens?

225 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 Grip Tightens hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Grip Tightens?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 38 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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