Thirst · Knocked Loose

47 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 9-10 and 13-14, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THIRST · BARS 9-10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 14 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 7 sections: 14 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-5.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART S5
BREAK 2
6 groovesJDS5S7B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thirst?

165 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 Thirst hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Thirst?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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