Big News 1 · Clutch

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 21-31 and 41, and 5 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BIG NEWS 1 · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 40 and 60.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 91 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-108.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAJGFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big News 1?

81 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 Big News 1 hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Big News 1?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 40 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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