The Red Death · Boing

410 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 11:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
410
LENGTH
11:41
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 21 and 25-26, and 20 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
THE RED DEATH · BARS 17-18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 31 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

410 bars across 32 sections: 251 keep time, 37 are fills, 22 are stops and 63 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-76.

PART R
PART S12
BREAK 5
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
24 groovesHBDBSS28S12+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Red Death?

142 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 Red Death hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

410 bars, about 11:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 31 sittings, about 26 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 Red Death?

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 410 BARS ANALYSED
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