Kasih Putih · Glenn Fredly

75 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 37-39 and 42-45 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KASIH PUTIH · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 25, 34 and 40.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 31 keep time, 4 are fills, 10 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDS7KS5A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kasih Putih?

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 Kasih Putih hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 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 Kasih Putih?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 25, 34 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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