Patience Testing · Caiden

140 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 2% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12 -- 2.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
PATIENCE TESTING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 42 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 34-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 19 sections: 63 keep time, 48 are fills, 8 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-106.

PART I
CHORUS
PART S7
PART AX
PART S12
PART BE
PART U
OUTRO
19 groovesS5FAXIU+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Patience Testing?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Patience Testing hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Patience Testing?

12 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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