This Secret Ninja · AFI

56 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 21-27 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THIS SECRET NINJA · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 20 and 36.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-47.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Secret Ninja?

110 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 Secret Ninja hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This Secret Ninja?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 20 and 36.

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