Indigo · Sam Barber (Feat. Avery Anna)

102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 84 BPM, 3:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-21, and 11 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
INDIGO · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 45, 57, 85 and 97.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 5 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCGS11KA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Indigo?

84 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Indigo hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Indigo?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 45, 57, 85 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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