Time Moves Slow · BADBADNOTGOOD

76 bars, 4:19, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 15-17 and 19-26, and 1 more place -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
TIME MOVES SLOW · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 59, 74 and 75.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 7 sections: 59 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-30.

PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIVAAADD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time Moves Slow?

70 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 Time Moves Slow hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time Moves Slow?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 59, 74 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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