Double Bass Practice Routine · Myself

59 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:49 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 56-59 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DOUBLE BASS PRACTICE ROUTINE · BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 15 sections: 51 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
PART H
PART I
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
14 groovesBADEH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Double Bass Practice Routine?

130 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 Double Bass Practice Routine hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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