Uphill Battle · Ambitions

69 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-23 -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
UPHILL BATTLE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 12, 16, 24 and 15 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 5 sections: 40 keep time, 21 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDTKNQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Uphill Battle?

210 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 Uphill Battle hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Uphill Battle?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 12, 16, 24 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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