Compass (3-Instrument Tab) · By Mili

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 25 and 27, and 3 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
COMPASS (3-INSTRUMENT TAB) · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 5 sections: 47 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Compass (3-Instrument Tab)?

88 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 Compass (3-Instrument Tab) hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Compass (3-Instrument Tab)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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