Spooky Drum Cover · Atlanta Rhythm Section

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 22 and 26-29, and 18 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SPOOKY DRUM COVER · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34 and 27 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time and 33 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFMCAAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spooky Drum Cover?

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 Spooky Drum Cover hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Spooky Drum Cover?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 34 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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