Linda Claire · Fleshwater

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-44, 47-49 and 51-52, and 2 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
LINDA CLAIRE · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 22 and 20 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time, 26 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART B
PART F
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesPBFDOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Linda Claire?

93 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 Linda Claire hard to play on drums?

54 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Linda Claire?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 22 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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