SISTER1 · HOLD SISTER

35 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
1:16
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-34 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SISTER1 · BARS 28-29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 18 and 19.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 5 sections: 22 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

CHORUS
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBLURIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SISTER1?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 SISTER1 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 1:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in SISTER1?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 18 and 19.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 35 BARS ANALYSED
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