Reminiscing · Little River Band

11 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 0:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:31
DIFFICULTY
8/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
REMINISCING · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 2 sections: 9 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

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

Questions

What BPM is Reminiscing?

85 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 Reminiscing hard to play on drums?

8 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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