Swim · Chase Atlantic

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-35, 42-54 and 57-71, and 1 more place -- 93.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SWIM · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1S7S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swim?

120 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 Swim hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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