Beginnings · Chicago

176 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BEGINNINGS · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 47 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 20 sections: 94 keep time, 53 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AU
PART BE
PART BU
PART CH
15 groovesEBEBUAPCH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beginnings?

108 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 Beginnings hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 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 Beginnings?

29 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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