unnamed song 1 · aitw

149 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 98-106, 108 and 110, and 1 more place -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
UNNAMED SONG 1 · BARS 98-99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 28 and 39 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 36-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 22 sections: 70 keep time, 45 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-113.

PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AB
PART AD
CHORUS 4
15 groovesTADKER+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is unnamed song 1?

173 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 unnamed song 1 hard to play on drums?

63 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 unnamed song 1?

13 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 25, 28 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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