fluctuation · Integral

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Electronic90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 71-72 and 75-76, and 2 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
FLUCTUATION · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 39 keep time, 8 are fills, 10 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-62.

PART J
PART N
BREAK
BREAK 2
PART B
PART B
PART U
OUTRO
12 groovesS14S7BJS9+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is fluctuation?

109 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 fluctuation hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 fluctuation?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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