16 · Andymori

88 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28 and 30, and 22 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
16 · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 58 and 88.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-87.

CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAFBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 16?

140 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 16 hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 16?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 26, 58 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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