At The Place Where You Call · Abim

53 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17-18, and 6 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AT THE PLACE WHERE YOU CALL · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 12, 28 and 45.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 6 sections: 11 keep time, 4 are fills, 34 are stops and 1 is silent.

PART A
PART D
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesJGFAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At The Place Where You Call?

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 At The Place Where You Call hard to play on drums?

41 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 At The Place Where You Call?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 3, 12, 28 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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