定格 · Instinct of Sight

12 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 2 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
定格 · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 9.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars: 10 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 定格?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 定格 hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 定格?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 12 BARS ANALYSED
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