Fantasy · Earth, Wind & Fire

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-22 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FANTASY · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 13 sections: 77 keep time, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-100.

PART E
PART F
PART I
PART F
PART I
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesNFIBE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fantasy?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fantasy hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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