The Idiot Sun · Leviathan

293 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 8:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
8:39
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 24-70 and 72-118, and 2 more places -- 83.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
THE IDIOT SUN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 177 · LANDS ON BAR 178
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 6 sections: 206 keep time, 2 are fills, 80 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 169-176.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAIDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Idiot Sun?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Idiot Sun hard to play on drums?

32 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 8:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 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 Idiot Sun?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

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