Hermaphrodite · The Blind Cow

19 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 0:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12 -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
HERMAPHRODITE · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hermaphrodite?

99 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 Hermaphrodite hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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