Down Sight · Muzzle Brake

39 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
1:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DOWN SIGHT · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 1-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars: 18 keep time, 15 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-35.

OUTRO
1 grooveKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down Sight?

145 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 Down Sight 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 1:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Down Sight?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 39 BARS ANALYSED
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