Hemingway · Negrita

141 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 10 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HEMINGWAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 96, 104, 116, 128 and 140.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 6 are fills, 31 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-28.

CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
7 groovesBFAKI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hemingway?

135 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 Hemingway 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hemingway?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 96, 104, 116, 128 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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