THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) · Psycho-Frame

95 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-81, 84-85 and 88-89, and 1 more place -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) · BARS 80-81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 9, 19, 33 and 11 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART X
PART P
PART AB
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJABANXR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.)?

125 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 PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.) hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 PLOT TO NUKE THE MIDWEST (GOOD VER.)?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 9, 19, 33 and 11 more.

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