best song #3 · cesar

34 bars, 2:16, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
34
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6 and 15-30 -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BEST SONG #3 · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 34.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 33-34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

34 bars across 3 sections: 28 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-32.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is best song #3?

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

Is best song #3 hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

34 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 best song #3?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 34.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 34 BARS ANALYSED
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