Masterpiece · Motionless In White

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 36-37, and 3 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 89 BPM
MASTERPIECE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 17, 27, 31, 35, 44 and 11 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 38 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesBHXS1L+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Masterpiece?

89 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?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Masterpiece?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 17, 27, 31, 35, 44 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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