sad · opoerety

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 35-41, and 1 more place -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SAD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sad?

96 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 sad hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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