The Mask · Adrenalized

159 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18 and 38-39, and 8 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 · 220 BPM
THE MASK · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 56 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 17 sections: 64 keep time, 62 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-67.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFIAEAFC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Mask?

220 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 Mask hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Mask?

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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