The Edge · David McCallum

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-35, 40-43 and 47-53 -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE EDGE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 38, 56, 57, 60 and 62.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 5 sections: 46 keep time, 6 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-35.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Edge?

90 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 Edge hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Edge?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 38, 56, 57, 60 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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