Matte Kudasai · King Crimson

127 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 3:45 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-30, 32-35 and 37-38, and 10 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
MATTE KUDASAI · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 2 sections: 118 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-127.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Matte Kudasai?

104 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Matte Kudasai hard to play on drums?

36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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