The Trash Cleaner · The Beheaded

188 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-33, 36-37 and 40-41, and 9 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE TRASH CLEANER · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 11, 26, 34, 35, 42 and 23 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 20 sections: 122 keep time, 29 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-106.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART B
OUTRO
11 groovesLBFWD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Trash Cleaner?

120 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 Trash Cleaner hard to play on drums?

52 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Trash Cleaner?

7 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 11, 26, 34, 35, 42 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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