I Talk To The Wind · King Crimson

126 bars, 6:43, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 32-36, and 2 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
I TALK TO THE WIND · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-115.

PART D
PART L
PART G
PART S
PART Z
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFGDZL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Talk To The Wind?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Talk To The Wind hard to play on drums?

52 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?

126 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

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