That Is The Time · The Bursthead

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 25 more places -- 74.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THAT IS THE TIME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 5 sections: 117 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-86.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is That Is The Time?

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 That Is The Time 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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