Huit Octobre 1971 · Cortex

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 21-22 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HUIT OCTOBRE 1971 · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 3 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 8-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 90

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-48.

PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
PART V
PART Z
PART AB
PART AE
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLQEZAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Huit Octobre 1971?

80 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 Huit Octobre 1971 hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Huit Octobre 1971?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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