5 · fatherlessness

107 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 83 BPM, 4:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 91-97 -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
5 · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 33, 37, 41, 44 and 23 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 14 sections: 54 keep time, 29 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBOABXAJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 5?

83 BPM, in 3/4, 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 5 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 5?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 33, 37, 41, 44 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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