The Rich are Killing the Poor · Opposition rising

117 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-27, 34 and 36, and 15 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
THE RICH ARE KILLING THE POOR · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 49, 61, 69, 77, 109 and 4 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 82 keep time, 10 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-100.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCPBN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rich are Killing the Poor?

220 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 Rich are Killing the Poor 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rich are Killing the Poor?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 41, 49, 61, 69, 77, 109 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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