Locomotive Breath · Jethro Tull

89 bars, 5:53, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 35 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
LOCOMOTIVE BREATH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 2 sections: 84 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-88.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Locomotive Breath?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Locomotive Breath 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Locomotive Breath?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

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