Akim & The Majistret · Potret

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-44 and 64-69, and 1 more place -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
AKIM & THE MAJISTRET · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 29, 37, 45, 49, 52 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-22.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJFRS2H+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Akim & The Majistret?

80 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 Akim & The Majistret hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Akim & The Majistret?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 29, 37, 45, 49, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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