Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is · Unwound

267 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 13:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
13:01
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 155-157, 159 and 161, and 33 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
KANTINA/WERE, ARE AND WAS OR IS · BAR 161
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 24 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 14 sections: 164 keep time, 28 are fills and 58 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 167-223.

PART G
PART G
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesNGS9KB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 13:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is?

2 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED
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