Autumn · PLAGUE THY CHILD

256 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-67, 69-71 and 77-79, and 19 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
AUTUMN · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 50 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 24 sections: 142 keep time, 56 are fills, 27 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 199-215.

PART C
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BK
17 groovesXCRBKBI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Autumn?

140 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 Autumn hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 24 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 Autumn?

28 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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