Transform (neorig) · Koppernigk

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 75-77, and 1 more place -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TRANSFORM (NEORIG) · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 36 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 46 keep time, 42 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-21.

CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBRAAVASFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Transform (neorig)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Transform (neorig) hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 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 Transform (neorig)?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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