Drift Away · Uncle Kraker

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 22-24 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
DRIFT AWAY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 32, 35, 52, 64, 67 and 3 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drift Away?

76 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 Drift Away hard to play on drums?

54 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 Drift Away?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 32, 35, 52, 64, 67 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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