Sideways - Drums · Balu Brigada

104 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 16-28 and 31-35, and 10 more places -- 73.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
SIDEWAYS - DRUMS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 104.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-46.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
7 groovesAS6BFG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sideways - Drums?

137 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 Sideways - Drums hard to play on drums?

51 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 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 Sideways - Drums?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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