Autobiografia · Perfect

65 bars, 4:20, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 27-29 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
AUTOBIOGRAFIA · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 26 and 46.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 4 sections: 55 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-45.

PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Autobiografia?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Autobiografia hard to play on drums?

40 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Autobiografia?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 26 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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