So Far Away · Crossfade

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 15 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
SO FAR AWAY · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 29, 30 and 12 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-38.

COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHQJLG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Far Away?

103 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 So Far Away hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 So Far Away?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 29, 30 and 12 more.

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