30/90 · Tick, Tick, BOOM! Musical

199 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 8:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
8:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-82, 84-86 and 128-130, and 4 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
30/90 · BARS 80-81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45 and 34 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 44-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 61-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 16 sections: 93 keep time, 40 are fills, 14 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-171.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART N
PART K
PART AD
PART Y
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRS1YKAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 30/90?

85 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 30/90 hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 8:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 30/90?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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