Under Jolly Roger · Running Wild

95 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 34-37 and 48-50, and 4 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
UNDER JOLLY ROGER · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 16, 22, 31, 32, 38 and 5 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 11 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-62.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJFDBNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under Jolly Roger?

170 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 Under Jolly Roger hard to play on drums?

62 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Under Jolly Roger?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 16, 22, 31, 32, 38 and 5 more.

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