Seminole Wind · John Anderson

122 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 43-74 and 90-113, and 1 more place -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SEMINOLE WIND · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 114.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 6 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-74.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seminole Wind?

110 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 Seminole Wind 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Seminole Wind?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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