"Deadweight" · Basement

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-12, 17-24 and 29-32, and 6 more places -- 72.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
"DEADWEIGHT" · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 66 and 70.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 2 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-56.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Deadweight"?

97 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 "Deadweight" 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 "Deadweight"?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 66 and 70.

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