Dust Bowl · ethel cain

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-33, 37-39 and 49-51, and 4 more places -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
DUST BOWL · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 90 keep time, 9 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-75.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesADS7S4S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dust Bowl?

86 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 Dust Bowl hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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