Disappointed · Last Train

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 17-24 and 35-41 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
DISAPPOINTED · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 29, 32, 33, 34 and 7 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 75 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-80.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART P
PART T
7 groovesCPTFS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disappointed?

82 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 Disappointed hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Disappointed?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 16, 29, 32, 33, 34 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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