Great Southern Land · Icehouse

158 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-34 and 36, and 16 more places -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GREAT SOUTHERN LAND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 158.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 158
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 4 sections: 146 keep time, 1 is a fill and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-137.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great Southern Land?

120 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 Great Southern Land hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, 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 Great Southern Land?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 158.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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