Afghamistam · Botch

35 bars, 2:05, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 10-11 and 15-16, and 3 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 67 BPM
AFGHAMISTAM · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 2 sections: 31 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Afghamistam?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Afghamistam hard to play on drums?

52 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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