TKO · cheap perfume

13 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
TKO · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars across 3 sections: 9 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-6.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TKO?

148 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 TKO hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 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 TKO?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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