Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time · Alternative Competition 6

156 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
LOOMING SHADOWS OF OUR PAST TIME · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 1 is a fill, 11 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-94.

PART F
PART O
PART S
PART O
OUTRO
11 groovesS15OSFB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time?

115 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 Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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