Time And Distance · Volcano

105 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 63, and 12 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
TIME AND DISTANCE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 26 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-46.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART W
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesGZAPOW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time And Distance?

133 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 Time And Distance hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time And Distance?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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