Altogether Good · Citizens

72 bars, 4:34, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 21-22 and 25-27, and 5 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 63 BPM
ALTOGETHER GOOD · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 36, 44, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-10.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Altogether Good?

63 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 Altogether Good hard to play on drums?

42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Altogether Good?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 36, 44, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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