Thicker · The Blank Theory

108 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 17, 23, 30 and 10 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 55 keep time, 16 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-42.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesES12KOB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thicker?

190 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 Thicker hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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 Thicker?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 17, 23, 30 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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