Dirt · Phish

144 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-36, 55-56 and 59, and 13 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DIRT · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 16 sections: 88 keep time, 19 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART L
7 groovesBMJFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirt?

135 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 Dirt hard to play on drums?

40 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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