The Distance · Cake

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 39-42 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
THE DISTANCE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 18 and 43.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 3 sections: 57 keep time, 3 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-66.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Distance?

89 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 The Distance hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Distance?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 18 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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