current wip · Me

21 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 0:51 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
21
LENGTH
0:51
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 4 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

21 bars: 11 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

OUTRO
1 grooveFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is current wip?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 current wip hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

21 bars, about 0:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 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 current wip?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 21 BARS ANALYSED
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