Traders And Gunboats · Slough Feg

179 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 34-36 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 182 BPM
TRADERS AND GUNBOATS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 32, 33, 37 and 38 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 45 are fills, 44 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLGFCAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Traders And Gunboats?

182 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 Traders And Gunboats hard to play on drums?

75 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?

179 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Traders And Gunboats?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 32, 33, 37 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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