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36 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 17 and 31-33 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TERWC · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 24 keep time, 6 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-14.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS7BEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is terwc?

120 BPM, in 7/4, 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 terwc hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 terwc?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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