Drop Out · Black Ball Line

42 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23 and 32-41 -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DROP OUT · BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesEAFS6DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drop Out?

120 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 Drop Out hard to play on drums?

61 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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