The Law of mine · Gabriel Alexi

120 bars, 6:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 82 and 84-86 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
THE LAW OF MINE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 12 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 14 sections: 54 keep time, 18 are fills, 6 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-102.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART S
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesAAHS7SH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Law of mine?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Law of mine hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Law of mine?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 12 more.

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