1st Song · James Borders

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-23, 76-84 and 98-106 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
1ST SONG · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 13, 14, 63, 69, 85 and 4 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 10 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-26.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART N
PART Q
PART R
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIMRQC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1st Song?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 1st Song hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 1st Song?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 13, 14, 63, 69, 85 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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