Dissipate · SEEKING SAMSARA

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34 and 36-37, and 3 more places -- 10.7% 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
DISSIPATE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 28, 35, 42, 44, 57 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 16 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFNSEAQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dissipate?

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 Dissipate hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dissipate?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 28, 35, 42, 44, 57 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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