16 · Ka

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29 and 48-54 -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
16 · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 22, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 55-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-54.

PART A
PART C
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesGEACD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 16?

80 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?

63 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 16?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 22, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59.

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