Twister · Broken Rule

36 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 1:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22-24 and 26-28 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TWISTER · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 25 and 29.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 4 sections: 28 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twister?

100 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 Twister hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Twister?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 25 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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