Outlaws and Outsiders · Cory Marks

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-41 -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
OUTLAWS AND OUTSIDERS · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 28, 44, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 34 keep time, 18 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART K
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAKJDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Outlaws and Outsiders?

88 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 Outlaws and Outsiders hard to play on drums?

47 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Outlaws and Outsiders?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 28, 44, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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