kiwi · quarters of a change

175 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 46 and 50, and 9 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
KIWI · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 48, 56, 63, 96 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 14 sections: 125 keep time, 24 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-44.

CHORUS
PART V
PART K
PART N
PART L
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAOVAJK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is kiwi?

130 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 kiwi hard to play on drums?

47 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 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 kiwi?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 48, 56, 63, 96 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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