Red · King Crimson

147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 46, and 4 more places -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
RED · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 53 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 13 sections: 45 keep time, 59 are fills, 5 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-18.

PART K
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AU
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQAUYS9K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red?

90 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 Red hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 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 Red?

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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