Bastard · AA Le Composer

47 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BASTARD · BAR 18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 7 sections: 19 keep time and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-11.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS5DS1FI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bastard?

120 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 Bastard hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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