Present Tense · Jonny, Thom & a CR-78

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-17 and 20-21, and 14 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PRESENT TENSE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 5 sections: 116 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-113.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Present Tense?

90 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 Present Tense hard to play on drums?

38 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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