Many Times · Dijon

68 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 41, and 4 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MANY TIMES · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-63.

PART F
PART H
PART M
PART F
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWFHRM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Many Times?

130 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 Many Times hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Many Times?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

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