Step by Step In Time · Benny Rivers

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-32 and 42, and 5 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
STEP BY STEP IN TIME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 65 and 91.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 81 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-64.

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

Questions

What BPM is Step by Step In Time?

82 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 Step by Step In Time 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Step by Step In Time?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 65 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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