1969: A Predator Among Us · Capricorns

204 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 9:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
9:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 108-204 -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
1969: A PREDATOR AMONG US · BAR 124
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 28 and 72.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 6 sections: 192 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-204.

PART B
PART F
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBIFH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1969: A Predator Among Us?

90 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 1969: A Predator Among Us hard to play on drums?

49 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 9:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 1969: A Predator Among Us?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 28 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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