Session · Given

33 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 1:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
33
LENGTH
1:13
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 25-26 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SESSION · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 1 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

33 bars across 7 sections: 9 keep time, 7 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-11.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
PART S5
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesBS1S5S7D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Session?

135 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Session hard to play on drums?

56 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

33 bars, about 1:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Session?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 1 more.

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