Song for My Father (Intro) · Horace Silver

20 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 0:37 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
20
LENGTH
0:37
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 6 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SONG FOR MY FATHER (INTRO) · BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

20 bars across 2 sections: 19 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song for My Father (Intro)?

125 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 Song for My Father (Intro) hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

20 bars, about 0:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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