Child In Time · Deep Purple

256 bars, 19:46, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
19:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-83, 102 and 118-124, and 10 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 61 BPM
CHILD IN TIME · BAR 142
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 29, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 40 more.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BARS 37-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 23 sections: 134 keep time, 46 are fills and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-108.

PART AI
PART BA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
BREAK 2
15 groovesS23AZBANAI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Child In Time?

61 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 Child In Time hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 19:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Child In Time?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 29, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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