Fourty Days · Billy Brooks

177 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 19-20, and 9 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
FOURTY DAYS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 75, 76, 83 and 8 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 16 sections: 140 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-117.

PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesACEABI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fourty Days?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fourty Days hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fourty Days?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 75, 76, 83 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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