Circumstances · Rush

134 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 44-45, and 1 more place -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
CIRCUMSTANCES · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 49 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 9 sections: 27 keep time, 55 are fills, 23 are stops and 20 are silent.

PART J
PART O
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesWS6JANN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Circumstances?

128 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 Circumstances hard to play on drums?

57 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Circumstances?

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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