Paint · First Day Back

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PAINT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 38 keep time, 35 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-19.

PART C
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKCHAEF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paint?

100 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 Paint hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Paint?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.

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