Odd Time Thingy In 9/8 / 19/16 · Jack Winegarden

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 94-95, 97-98 and 100-101, and 4 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ODD TIME THINGY IN 9/8 / 19/16 · BARS 94-95
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 23 are fills, 5 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-110.

PART E
PART I
PART AE
PART AJ
PART AS
BREAK
PART S8
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesBDIAJS7S10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Odd Time Thingy In 9/8 / 19/16?

140 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 Odd Time Thingy In 9/8 / 19/16 hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Odd Time Thingy In 9/8 / 19/16?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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