Auto Assimilation · National Assembly

212 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 31-32, and 15 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
AUTO ASSIMILATION · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 61 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 19 sections: 121 keep time, 67 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-159.

PART A
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART AB
PART AE
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGKUAEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Auto Assimilation?

134 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 Auto Assimilation hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Auto Assimilation?

22 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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