Three Red Orcs In Kentucky America · Amalgam

287 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 76-78 and 80-82, and 11 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THREE RED ORCS IN KENTUCKY AMERICA · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 90, 172, 180, 195, 196, 197 and 4 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 180 · LANDS ON BAR 181
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 195-197 · LANDS ON BAR 198 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 201 · LANDS ON BAR 202

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

320 bars across 14 sections: 216 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 78 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-53.

PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART U
BREAK 3
BREAK 4
12 groovesOBS14KU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Three Red Orcs In Kentucky America?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Three Red Orcs In Kentucky America hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Three Red Orcs In Kentucky America?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 90, 172, 180, 195, 196, 197 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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