Laid · James

73 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-21 and 25-30, and 4 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
LAID · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 2 sections: 66 keep time, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-72.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Laid?

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

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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