What If... · Control Denied

116 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-28 and 85-100 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
WHAT IF... · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 54.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
PART P
CHORUS 2
8 groovesDFGHA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What If...?

144 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 What If... hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

116 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 What If...?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 54.

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