The Door · Teddy Swims

113 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-49, 52-89 and 98-113 -- 91.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
THE DOOR · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 4 sections: 110 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-89.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
3 groovesBES3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Door?

128 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 Door hard to play on drums?

46 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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