Letter Experiment · Periphery

221 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57 and 61-62, and 9 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
LETTER EXPERIMENT · BAR 126
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 36, 45, 46 and 28 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 17 sections: 145 keep time, 34 are fills, 15 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 195-219.

PART G
CHORUS
PART AN
PART BI
PART BT
PART AN
PART CH
OUTRO 2
13 groovesACCHGANBI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Letter Experiment?

138 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 Letter Experiment hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Letter Experiment?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 36, 45, 46 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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