Last univeral common ancestor · jit riffs

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59 and 61-63 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LAST UNIVERAL COMMON ANCESTOR · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 57 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 9 sections: 22 keep time, 63 are fills, 6 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-64.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AX
OUTRO
BREAK 3
8 groovesDAXS9S8AL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last univeral common ancestor?

110 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 Last univeral common ancestor hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Last univeral common ancestor?

12 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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