Unused Riffs · Stormcell

6 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 0:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
6
LENGTH
0:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
UNUSED RIFFS · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 5.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

6 bars: 3 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unused Riffs?

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 Unused Riffs hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

6 bars, about 0:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Unused Riffs?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 5.

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