AMBIENCE · GRAVEYARD PUPPETS

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 13-17 and 40, and 3 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AMBIENCE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 1 is a fill, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART G
8 groovesBADCG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is AMBIENCE?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 AMBIENCE hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 AMBIENCE?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

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