Time To Go · Bloody Merry

158 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 30-34 and 38, and 9 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
TIME TO GO · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 154, 155, 156 and 157.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 154-157 · LANDS ON BAR 158 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 15 sections: 124 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGLDAQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time To Go?

162 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 Time To Go 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Time To Go?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 154, 155, 156 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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