The Negative · I Prevail

77 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 21-27 and 41-42, and 2 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
THE NEGATIVE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 33, 34, 36, 38 and 13 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEGRDS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Negative?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Negative hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Negative?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 33, 34, 36, 38 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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