Werships · Portal

203 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-40 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WERSHIPS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 44, 53, 54 and 18 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 10 sections: 164 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-159.

PART D
PART E
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLADEI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Werships?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Werships hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Werships?

3 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 44, 53, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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