Rational Time · maretu

441 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 13:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
441
LENGTH
13:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 21 more places -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RATIONAL TIME · BAR 369
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

50 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 21, 23, 26, 27, 35, 116 and 94 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

47 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

441 bars across 41 sections: 169 keep time, 100 are fills, 30 are stops and 103 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 418-431.

BREAK
PART S6
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
32 groovesS5CDCYEOS6+27Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rational Time?

120 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 Rational Time hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

441 bars, about 13:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 156 exercises over 50 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Rational Time?

50 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 21, 23, 26, 27, 35, 116 and 94 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 441 BARS ANALYSED
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