What Would Brian Boitano Do · D.V.D.A

92 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 15-17 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
WHAT WOULD BRIAN BOITANO DO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 54, 56, 64 and 72.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 61 keep time, 4 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-92.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBLCKS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Would Brian Boitano Do?

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 What Would Brian Boitano Do hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in What Would Brian Boitano Do?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 54, 56, 64 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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