The One Who's Running the Show · DIGITAL CIRCUS

98 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-35 -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE ONE WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 3 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
PART G
PART D
PART G
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
10 groovesCS1KDG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The One Who's Running the Show?

160 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 One Who's Running the Show 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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