TestingKC · Miscellaneous

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-128 and 130-131 -- 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 · 98 BPM
TESTINGKC · BAR 127
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 69 more.

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 75 are fills, 1 is a stop and 53 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-118.

PART S3
BREAK 2
PART S5
BREAK 3
PART BN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCES3S5S6BN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TestingKC?

98 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 TestingKC hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 TestingKC?

6 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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