The song of the widows · Highead

118 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 5:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69 and 71-74 -- 4.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
THE SONG OF THE WIDOWS · BARS 71-72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 27 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 7 sections: 63 keep time, 33 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-90.

CHORUS
PART AJ
PART BL
PART CF
PART B
BREAK 2
7 groovesS1BLAJS7CF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The song of the widows?

73 BPM, in 3/4, 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 song of the widows hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The song of the widows?

7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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