This Is What · Emigrate

118 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-16 and 18-36, and 4 more places -- 71.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THIS IS WHAT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 17, 37, 47, 95 and 3 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 114-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 3 sections: 100 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-71.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is What?

112 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 This Is What hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 This Is What?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 17, 37, 47, 95 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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