Starting Over · LSD and the Search for God

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-37, 39-40 and 44-47, and 5 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
STARTING OVER · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 49, 73, 89, 105 and 121.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 6 are fills, 29 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART O
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICOS1L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starting Over?

108 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 Starting Over hard to play on drums?

41 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Starting Over?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 49, 73, 89, 105 and 121.

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