Playground · Ayreon

27 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 1:39 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
27
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 1 more place -- 68.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PLAYGROUND · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 14 and 18.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

27 bars across 3 sections: 12 keep time, 4 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-9.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playground?

90 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Playground hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

27 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Playground?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 14 and 18.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 27 BARS ANALYSED
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