Theme For Jce · Antares

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 80-81, and 1 more place -- 9.4% 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
THEME FOR JCE · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 31, 33, 35, 37, 49 and 22 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 29 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-9.

PART C
PART A
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART AB
OUTRO
11 groovesS7AAGABJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Theme For Jce?

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 Theme For Jce hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Theme For Jce?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 31, 33, 35, 37, 49 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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