A Solitude · Alternative Competition 5

24 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
0:48
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-23 -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A SOLITUDE · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 24.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 2 sections: 21 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

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

Questions

What BPM is A Solitude?

120 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 A Solitude hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 0:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A Solitude?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 24 BARS ANALYSED
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