doom · Steve Lacy

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-72 -- 97.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
DOOM · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 3 sections: 66 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-72.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is doom?

93 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 doom hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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