Third World Fighting Music (continuous play) · Hong Kong Fuck You

244 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 10:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
10:04
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-39, 65 and 67, and 8 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THIRD WORLD FIGHTING MUSIC (CONTINUOUS PLAY) · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 37 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 43 are fills, 88 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 212-225.

PART G
PART Z
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesWASAXGS8+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Third World Fighting Music (continuous play)?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Third World Fighting Music (continuous play) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 10:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Third World Fighting Music (continuous play)?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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