ugh · to suffer is human

25 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 0:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
UGH · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, 21 and 2 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 15 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ugh?

200 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 ugh hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 ugh?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, 21 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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