asdfghj · Asdfghj

109 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 18-19 and 22-27, and 10 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
ASDFGHJ · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 108.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is asdfghj?

127 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 asdfghj hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 asdfghj?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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