Manipulating The Inevitable · Alternative Competition 3

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:48
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 6-20 -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MANIPULATING THE INEVITABLE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 31, 32, 36, 37, 40, 41 and 10 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQCFKB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manipulating The Inevitable?

80 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 Manipulating The Inevitable 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Manipulating The Inevitable?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 31, 32, 36, 37, 40, 41 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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