Drop Out (next) · Black Ball Line

30 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:00 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
30
LENGTH
1:00
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DROP OUT (NEXT) · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

30 bars across 4 sections: 22 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-22.

PART S1
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drop Out (next)?

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 (next) hard to play on drums?

55 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

30 bars, about 1:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Drop Out (next)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

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