Connector · A Lot Like Birds

251 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-67, 69-74 and 199-205, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CONNECTOR · BARS 61-62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 76 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 46-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 22 sections: 96 keep time, 82 are fills, 49 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-19.

CHORUS
PART X
PART AI
PART AS
PART BI
PART BN
PART BT
PART BX
PART AI
OUTRO
18 groovesASEAIXBT+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Connector?

120 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 Connector hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Connector?

20 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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