Fin · Pavement

63 bars, 4:12, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 22-27 and 29-39 -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
FIN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 20 and 28.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesABS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fin?

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

Is Fin hard to play on drums?

38 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fin?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 20 and 28.

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