steely dan · only a fool would say that

91 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4-6 and 9, and 9 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
STEELY DAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 5 sections: 80 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-60.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is steely dan?

128 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 steely dan hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in steely dan?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

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