Decades · Motionless In White

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46, 48-50 and 52-53, and 2 more places -- 11.6% 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
DECADES · BARS 48-49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 15 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 20 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-44.

PART B
PART F
PART L
PART V
CHORUS
PART L
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesZVLQB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decades?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Decades hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Decades?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 14, 15 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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