The Test · Pain of Truth

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-66 -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
THE TEST · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 67.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 3 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-66.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Test?

105 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 Test hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 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 Test?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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