Just Despair? · Midnight Darkwave

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-72 -- 98.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
JUST DESPAIR? · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars: 72 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-72.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Despair??

105 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 Just Despair? hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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