August 10 · Khruangbin

177 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-64, 66-96 and 130-144, and 1 more place -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
AUGUST 10 · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 177
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 3 sections: 173 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-96.

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

Questions

What BPM is August 10?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is August 10 hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in August 10?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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