Solitude MMXIII · Totalselfhatred

342 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 10:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
342
LENGTH
10:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70, 72 and 74, and 22 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SOLITUDE MMXIII · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 31, 33 and 57 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

342 bars across 25 sections: 143 keep time, 63 are fills, 92 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-90.

PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
16 groovesRKPAAAS+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solitude MMXIII?

98 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Solitude MMXIII hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

342 bars, about 10:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 MMXIII?

19 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 31, 33 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 342 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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