Song · Hans Friedl

33 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 0:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
33
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14 -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SONG · BARS 7-8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 6, 18 and 22.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

33 bars across 5 sections: 20 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFLAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song?

130 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 Song hard to play on drums?

43 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?

33 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Song?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 6, 18 and 22.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 33 BARS ANALYSED
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