July · Katatonia

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 19-26 and 45-51, and 3 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
JULY · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 34, 38, 42, 52, 60 and 21 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 27 are fills, 13 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-108.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART G
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBSGEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is July?

100 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 July hard to play on drums?

57 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 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.

How many fills are in July?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 34, 38, 42, 52, 60 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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