Solidarity · Stage Bottles

131 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 37-51 and 69-83, and 6 more places -- 64.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SOLIDARITY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 36, 68, 84, 92, 108 and 2 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 5 sections: 85 keep time, 8 are fills, 30 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solidarity?

135 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 Solidarity hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Solidarity?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 36, 68, 84, 92, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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