The Idol · W.A.S.P.

63 bars, 4:48, at 52 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
52 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 23-45 and 47-63 -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 52 BPM
THE IDOL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12 and 22.

LOOP · 52 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 52 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 52 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 3 sections: 52 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-63.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Idol?

52 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Idol hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Idol?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12 and 22.

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