five fourth · Damir Abilkassym

87 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:07 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 11 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FIVE FOURTH · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-61.

CHORUS
PART P
PART AF
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS8FPS7AF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is five fourth?

140 BPM, in 5/4, 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 five fourth hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 five fourth?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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