The Adam's Family · Adam's Family

21 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 0:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
21
LENGTH
0:41
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7 and 9-11 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE ADAM'S FAMILY · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

21 bars across 3 sections: 11 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-14.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Adam's Family?

180 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Adam's Family hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

21 bars, about 0:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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