Fibers · Delta Nine

109 bars, 6:19, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 39-40, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
FIBERS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 32, 33 and 18 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 83 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-53.

PART G
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
PART AN
PART AT
OUTRO
9 groovesNGAGANAT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fibers?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fibers hard to play on drums?

64 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fibers?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 32, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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