moment of truth · red clay strays

156 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-31 and 61, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
MOMENT OF TRUTH · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 102 and 5 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 11 are fills, 31 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLAFS9Q+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is moment of truth?

116 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 moment of truth hard to play on drums?

41 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?

156 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in moment of truth?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 102 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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