Aristotle's Denial · Joe Hawley

40 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 0:55 of playing on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
0:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10-13 and 15-19, and 5 more places -- 70.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ARISTOTLE'S DENIAL · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 2 sections: 32 keep time, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-20.

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

Questions

What BPM is Aristotle's Denial?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Aristotle's Denial 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 0:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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