the riff · Not sure

16 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 0:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:19
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 9-11 and 13-14 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE RIFF · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 5, 6 and 14.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars: 11 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the riff?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is the riff hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 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 riff?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 5, 6 and 14.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 16 BARS ANALYSED
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