Prisoner · 311

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 29-32 and 37-38, and 2 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
PRISONER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 26, 27 and 28.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 9 sections: 43 keep time, 4 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-44.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFECG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prisoner?

84 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 Prisoner hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 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.

How many fills are in Prisoner?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 26, 27 and 28.

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