my first · Grudge

33 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
33
LENGTH
1:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10 and 12-15 -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MY FIRST · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 16 and 33.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

33 bars across 5 sections: 21 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHGJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is my first?

130 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 my first hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

33 bars, about 1:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 my first?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 16 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 33 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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