Mikel's Song · Break

46 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24 and 35-42 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MIKEL'S SONG · BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 8 sections: 38 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBAFG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mikel's Song?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Mikel's Song hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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