Dsco · Sweet Trip

90 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 15 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DSCO · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 4 sections: 84 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-89.

CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
2 groovesECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dsco?

135 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 Dsco hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

90 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, 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 Dsco?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

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