Photosynthesis · Evan Gonzales

57 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 1:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
1:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31 and 42-57 -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
PHOTOSYNTHESIS · BARS 25-26
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 41.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 5 sections: 51 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Photosynthesis?

94 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Photosynthesis hard to play on drums?

53 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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 Photosynthesis?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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