Bob the Overseeing Entity · Another Crack in the Bridge

87 bars, 4:58, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28 and 58-62 -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BOB THE OVERSEEING ENTITY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a fill and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesAS3GBF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bob the Overseeing Entity?

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

Is Bob the Overseeing Entity hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bob the Overseeing Entity?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

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