Metronome · Toe

47 bars, 2:32, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 31-46 -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
METRONOME · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 20.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 6 sections: 27 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-46.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART S3
CHORUS
BREAK
VERSE 2
5 groovesDS5CS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metronome?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Metronome hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Metronome?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 20.

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