Structure (demo) · Odd Sweetheart

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 41 and 57-58, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
STRUCTURE (DEMO) · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 31 and 15 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 43 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-50.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLWAQAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Structure (demo)?

90 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 Structure (demo) hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Structure (demo)?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 31 and 15 more.

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