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53 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 32-33 and 39-40 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOMETHING · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 3, 15, 19, 20, 21 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 19-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

PART K
PART L
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNKABAAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is something?

120 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 something hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 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 something?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 3, 15, 19, 20, 21 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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