Between me and the machine · Resolve

241 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 106 BPM, 6:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 182-188, 190-192 and 194, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BETWEEN ME AND THE MACHINE · BARS 182-183
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 45, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 40 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 18 sections: 92 keep time, 46 are fills, 5 are stops and 82 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-61.

PART S2
PART C
PART E
PART AA
BREAK
CHORUS
16 groovesS13AMS2EAA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Between me and the machine?

106 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Between me and the machine hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Between me and the machine?

21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 45, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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