September by Earth, Wind And Fire WD · misc covers

113 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-25 and 28-33, and 11 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
SEPTEMBER BY EARTH, WIND AND FIRE WD · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 6, 26, 34, 58, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 4 sections: 97 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-57.

OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is September by Earth, Wind And Fire WD?

123 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 September by Earth, Wind And Fire WD hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 September by Earth, Wind And Fire WD?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 6, 26, 34, 58, 66 and 3 more.

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