The Earth · De Memoria

83 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 126 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-51 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
THE EARTH · BARS 40-41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-35.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
PART X
PART AB
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesS9GBQX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Earth?

126 BPM, in 7/4, 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 The Earth hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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