The Judge · crewxabanger

101 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 18-19 and 21-22, and 2 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
THE JUDGE · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 28 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 12 sections: 41 keep time, 34 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-73.

PART B
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART J
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHJXAAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Judge?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Judge hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Judge?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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