Forty Hour Suit · train breaks down

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

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FORTY HOUR SUIT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 22, 24, 28, 39, 40 and 16 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART T
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGTAFAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forty Hour Suit?

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 hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Forty Hour Suit?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 22, 24, 28, 39, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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