A Desire To Disappear · Takamachi Walk

183 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119-150 -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
A DESIRE TO DISAPPEAR · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 32 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 38 are fills, 28 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-150.

PART F
PART N
PART Y
PART AG
CHORUS
13 groovesAMAGNYF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Desire To Disappear?

100 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 A Desire To Disappear hard to play on drums?

48 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Desire To Disappear?

25 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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