Play Big · Downset

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 45-47, and 4 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
PLAY BIG · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHAELP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Play Big?

86 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 Play Big hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Play Big?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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