The Ninth Song · Mistakenly Heartfelt

131 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-11 and 16-19 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE NINTH SONG · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 17 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a stop and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-66.

PART F
PART J
PART S8
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AH
BREAK
15 groovesS17SABFS8+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ninth Song?

120 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 Ninth Song hard to play on drums?

28 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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.

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