Half Mast · Empire Of The Sun

120 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 8 more places -- 89.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HALF MAST · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 91 and 92.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars: 117 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-75.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Half Mast?

128 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 Half Mast hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Half Mast?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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