bmbmbm · Black Midi

36 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 1:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 14-15 and 17, and 6 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BMBMBM · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 3 sections: 30 keep time, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bmbmbm?

88 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 bmbmbm hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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