Latitudinarian · Master

185 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 4:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LATITUDINARIAN · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 23 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 15 sections: 109 keep time, 29 are fills, 24 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-151.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesEHOBM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Latitudinarian?

128 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Latitudinarian hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Latitudinarian?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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