Middle of System · Ausborn 66

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21 and 55-78 -- 67.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MIDDLE OF SYSTEM · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 1 is a fill and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-78.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
7 groovesCDS5S7S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Middle of System?

120 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 Middle of System hard to play on drums?

25 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Middle of System?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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