A Minor · Ex.Y

15 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 0:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
15
LENGTH
0:31
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
A MINOR · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

15 bars across 2 sections: 13 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Minor?

118 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 Minor hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

15 bars, about 0:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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