4 · fatherlessness

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 38 and 43, and 2 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
4 · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 7 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 7 sections: 28 keep time, 13 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-7.

PART A
PART C
PART G
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQGNAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4?

77 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 4 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 4?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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