Reach For The Sky · Social Distortion

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-22, and 13 more places -- 82.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
REACH FOR THE SKY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 2 sections: 100 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-101.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reach For The Sky?

120 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 Reach For The Sky hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 4 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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