steeeeam · shelly

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-20, 22-24 and 26-60, and 2 more places -- 94.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STEEEEAM · BARS 2-3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars: 85 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-85.

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

Questions

What BPM is steeeeam?

120 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 steeeeam hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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