Forty Hour Suit · 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 and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-43, 45-57 and 59 -- 29% 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 · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 28, 44, 60 and 18 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 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-43.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDJAJAHB+4Fill 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 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 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Forty Hour Suit?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 28, 44, 60 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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