Distance & Decay · Mânelieht

223 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 10:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
10:29
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 95-97 and 99-105, and 3 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
DISTANCE & DECAY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 29 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 15 sections: 124 keep time, 35 are fills, 3 are stops and 57 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-48.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART AD
BREAK
PART AG
OUTRO
BREAK 2
12 groovesLS15EAGAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Distance & Decay?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Distance & Decay hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 10:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Distance & Decay?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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