Policy · Algorhythm

65 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:51 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 7 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POLICY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 65.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 64-65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Policy?

140 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 Policy hard to play on drums?

62 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?

65 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Policy?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 64 and 65.

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