Fine Time · Cast

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 21-28 and 33-36, and 2 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
FINE TIME · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 59, 67 and 69.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-16.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART G
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCDGE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fine Time?

99 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 Fine Time hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fine Time?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 59, 67 and 69.

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