Masterpiece · Big Thief

17 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 0:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
17
LENGTH
0:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-14 -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MASTERPIECE · BARS 4-5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

17 bars: 16 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Masterpiece?

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 Masterpiece hard to play on drums?

39 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

17 bars, about 0:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Masterpiece?

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

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