SZUIM · Mruwczak

70 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 34-40, and 1 more place -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SZUIM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 32, 33 and 41.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 27 keep time, 6 are fills, 28 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-31.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesBMHDS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SZUIM?

110 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 SZUIM hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 SZUIM?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 32, 33 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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