Spinnin' On It · Nmixx

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 37, and 4 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SPINNIN' ON IT · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 16 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 4 sections: 45 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-71.

CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDJUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spinnin' On It?

90 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 Spinnin' On It hard to play on drums?

62 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spinnin' On It?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 16, 17, 18 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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