stepping off the earth · Windowsill

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
STEPPING OFF THE EARTH · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23 and 32 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 38 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-77.

CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART AC
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCSOAJAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is stepping off the earth?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 stepping off the earth hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 stepping off the earth?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 23 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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