Stillwater · KU-DETA

108 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 78-80, 82-83 and 86-88, and 1 more place -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
STILLWATER · BARS 79-80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 20 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 20 sections: 72 keep time, 26 are fills, 8 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-93.

PART L
PART R
PART AJ
PART AY
PART BF
OUTRO
BREAK 7
16 groovesBNRLBFS20+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stillwater?

150 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 Stillwater hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stillwater?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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