From The Start · Placeholder

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-30 and 43-49, and 3 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FROM THE START · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S9
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesDAS9FS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From The Start?

90 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 From The Start hard to play on drums?

48 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?

75 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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