choicess · DAVI

111 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CHOICESS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 40, 54, 68, 69 and 70.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 10 sections: 92 keep time, 6 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-111.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesAUCMS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is choicess?

135 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 choicess hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 choicess?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 40, 54, 68, 69 and 70.

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