From the Start · Laufey

104 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-19, 23-35 and 37-51, and 3 more places -- 92.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 164 BPM
FROM THE START · BARS 7-8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From the Start?

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

Is From the Start hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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