Molasses · Hiatus Kaiyote

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 5 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
MOLASSES · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 70, 71, 72 and 73.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 70-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-43.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART W
PART F
PART AD
PART AL
11 groovesOALADFS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Molasses?

85 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 Molasses hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Molasses?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 70, 71, 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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