Solitude · Carp

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 63 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 11 and 14, and 6 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 63 BPM
SOLITUDE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23 and 11 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 16 sections: 34 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-52.

PART I
CHORUS
BREAK 6
PART V
BREAK 8
PART S13
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK 9
13 groovesHIVS13S16+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solitude?

63 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Solitude hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Solitude?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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