Discipline · King Crimson

98 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 4:35 of playing on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57, 59 and 63-67, and 1 more place -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
DISCIPLINE · BARS 63-64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 4 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-75.

PART E
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesYS10EJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Discipline?

107 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Discipline hard to play on drums?

48 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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