August 1 · MP

47 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-12, and 8 more places -- 58.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
AUGUST 1 · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 26 and 4 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 4 sections: 33 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-45.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is August 1?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 August 1 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 August 1?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 26 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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