Sea · Dld

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 8 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SEA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 31, 45, 55, 65, 79 and 2 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 8 are fills, 16 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-94.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sea?

105 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 Sea hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sea?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 31, 45, 55, 65, 79 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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