How Long · Ace

99 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-48, 66-80 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
HOW LONG · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-48.

VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How Long?

123 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 How Long hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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