AA. Project #1 (Unfinished) · D

22 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 1:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
1:04
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
AA. PROJECT #1 (UNFINISHED) · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 7 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 14-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 4 sections: 10 keep time, 13 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-7.

PART S2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS4LS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is AA. Project #1 (Unfinished)?

125 BPM, in 7/4, 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 AA. Project #1 (Unfinished) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 1:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 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 AA. Project #1 (Unfinished)?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 7 more.

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