Recital Piece #2 · Jacob Askin

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 1 more place -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
RECITAL PIECE #2 · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 39 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 2 sections: 45 keep time, 45 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-67.

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

Questions

What BPM is Recital Piece #2?

80 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 Recital Piece #2 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

90 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Recital Piece #2?

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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