thing · TBP

97 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25 -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THING · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 17 sections: 47 keep time, 25 are fills, 11 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-84.

PART S5
PART K
PART O
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AL
OUTRO
16 groovesAHOKS5W+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is thing?

185 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 thing hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in thing?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 19 more.

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