Is It August Drum · gapyear

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 8-10, and 12 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
IS IT AUGUST DRUM · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 2 sections: 55 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-56.

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

Questions

What BPM is Is It August Drum?

90 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 Is It August Drum hard to play on drums?

63 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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