Seek And You Will Find · Gino Vannelli

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 17-18 and 58-63 -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 39 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 19-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 40-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 17 sections: 57 keep time, 45 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-63.

PART D
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AH
CHORUS 2
PART AH
VERSE 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAHIBXAAAS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seek And You Will Find?

104 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 Seek And You Will Find hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Seek And You Will Find?

13 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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