South Side Of The Sky · Yes

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 7:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 27-28, and 4 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
SOUTH SIDE OF THE SKY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 25, 32, 41 and 14 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 41-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 16 sections: 84 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-99.

PART C
PART E
PART J
PART B
PART S6
PART AF
PART Z
PART AW
PART S11
PART C
CHORUS
14 groovesBOS6CAWZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is South Side Of The Sky?

84 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 South Side Of The Sky hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in South Side Of The Sky?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 25, 32, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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