Trick or Treat · Fastway

84 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 26-29 and 37, and 5 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TRICK OR TREAT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-84.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCFAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trick or Treat?

125 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 Trick or Treat hard to play on drums?

45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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