unused song · Reptile

181 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 142, 144-146 and 148-150, and 9 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 204 BPM
UNUSED SONG · BAR 144
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 27, 33, 34 and 39 more.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 17 sections: 110 keep time, 45 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-180.

PART K
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesABAKDOAM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is unused song?

204 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 song 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 song?

18 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 27, 33, 34 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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