The Spectre · Alan Walker

98 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 38-43 and 84-98 -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE SPECTRE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 82.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 16 sections: 64 keep time, 2 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-98.

PART S2
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBS2EHA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Spectre?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Spectre hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Spectre?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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