The Ladder · Loathe

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 22 and 24, and 8 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE LADDER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 6 sections: 99 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEIS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ladder?

95 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 Ladder hard to play on drums?

44 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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