Plan A · Paulo Londra

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 26-28, and 5 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
PLAN A · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 29, 45, 53, 55, 56 and 1 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 55-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 5 sections: 43 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-28.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEHCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plan A?

87 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 Plan A hard to play on drums?

51 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?

62 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Plan A?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 29, 45, 53, 55, 56 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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