Dark Red (flja) · Steve Lacy

52 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 2:25 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-35, and 1 more place -- 92.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
DARK RED (FLJA) · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 52
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars: 51 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-51.

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

Questions

What BPM is Dark Red (flja)?

86 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 Dark Red (flja) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Dark Red (flja)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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