Sound And Vision · David Bowie

83 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-39 and 41-47, and 4 more places -- 91.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SOUND AND VISION · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 48, 54 and 79.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars: 76 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-39.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sound And Vision?

110 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 Sound And Vision hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sound And Vision?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 48, 54 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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