6 · fatherlessness

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-34, 37-42 and 69-74, and 3 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
6 · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 28, 35, 36, 43, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 97 keep time, 25 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-115.

PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCYAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 6?

120 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 6 hard to play on drums?

64 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 6?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 28, 35, 36, 43, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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