The Joy · The Belonging Co

233 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE JOY · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 27, 28, 36, 44 and 45 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 34 sections: 127 keep time, 51 are fills, 12 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-26.

PART F
PART K
PART L
OUTRO 2
26 groovesCKBOFAL+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Joy?

132 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 Joy hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 108 exercises over 28 sittings, about 28 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 Joy?

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 27, 28, 36, 44 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
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