BELOWGROUND v2 · Belowground

49 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 1:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:41
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-32 -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BELOWGROUND V2 · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 2 sections: 47 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BELOWGROUND v2?

116 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 BELOWGROUND v2 hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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