The Rodents Race · 156/Silence

124 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 21, and 13 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THE RODENTS RACE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 14, 18, 19 and 39 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 45 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-55.

PART H
CHORUS
PART W
PART AC
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesIAHHWAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rodents Race?

155 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 Rodents Race hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rodents Race?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 14, 18, 19 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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