The Maze · Vinnie Moore

399 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 7:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
399
LENGTH
7:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 51-66, and 4 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
THE MAZE · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 31, 39, 40, 48, 50 and 13 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

399 bars across 26 sections: 184 keep time, 21 are fills, 74 are stops and 98 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 219-232.

PART I
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO 2
17 groovesS26IQWO+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Maze?

250 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 Maze 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

399 bars, about 7:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Maze?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 28, 31, 39, 40, 48, 50 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 399 BARS ANALYSED
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