Operator · Jim Croce

102 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 22-56 and 58-92, and 1 more place -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OPERATOR · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 2 sections: 96 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-100.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Operator?

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 Operator hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Operator?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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