TTTLOA · TTTLOA

143 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 19, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
TTTLOA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 22, 38 and 9 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 18 sections: 100 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-143.

VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART AE
PART AM
VERSE 3
BREAK 3
13 groovesDAS18AEAM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TTTLOA?

155 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 TTTLOA hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 TTTLOA?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 22, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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