Looking Around · Alternative Competition 6

157 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-44 and 69-84 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LOOKING AROUND · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 19 sections: 109 keep time, 7 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-85.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
PART A
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCAS16GP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Looking Around?

150 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 Looking Around hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.

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