Just The Beginning · Dave Billock

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26, and 20 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
JUST THE BEGINNING · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 65, 73, 74, 75, 107 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 73-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 5 sections: 102 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just The Beginning?

120 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 The Beginning hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Just The Beginning?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 65, 73, 74, 75, 107 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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