The Start Of Something Beautiful · I Built The Sky

303 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 10:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
10:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 222-224, 226-228 and 230, and 5 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE START OF SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL · BAR 232
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 40, 50, 54 and 32 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

303 bars across 28 sections: 174 keep time, 38 are fills, 7 are stops and 71 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 174-188.

PART D
PART P
PART AI
CHORUS
PART BG
PART BT
PART BP
OUTRO
27 groovesS15BPPDCF+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Start Of Something Beautiful?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Start Of Something Beautiful hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 10:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 32 sittings, about 26 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 Start Of Something Beautiful?

26 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 40, 50, 54 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 303 BARS ANALYSED
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