水平線(full) · Back number

84 bars, 4:34, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 30-32 and 46-47, and 7 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 73 BPM
水平線(FULL) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 18 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 36 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-82.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCFS3S8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 水平線(full)?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 水平線(full) hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 水平線(full)?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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