forty hour suit standard · train breaks down

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 37-43 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FORTY HOUR SUIT STANDARD · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 60, 63, 69 and 17 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time, 23 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-59.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEKALAFAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is forty hour suit standard?

100 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 forty hour suit standard hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 forty hour suit standard?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 60, 63, 69 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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