Systemic · All My Wishes Were Thrown Down a Well and Should Die There

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-54, 65-66 and 68-70, and 2 more places -- 17.3% 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
SYSTEMIC · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 18, 27, 29, 31, 35 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-79.

PART C
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesQCLHR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Systemic?

90 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 Systemic hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Systemic?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 18, 27, 29, 31, 35 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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