Foreplay/Long Time · Boston

243 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 5:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-102, 104-106 and 108, and 6 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
FOREPLAY/LONG TIME · BAR 89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 46, 50 and 19 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 24 sections: 141 keep time, 26 are fills, 17 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 224-243.

PART F
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AE
OUTRO 2
18 groovesOFAEAPL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Foreplay/Long Time?

179 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Foreplay/Long Time hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Foreplay/Long Time?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 46, 50 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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