Tom Sawyer Synth, Guitar and Drums Solos · Rush

25 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 1:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
1:00
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9 -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
TOM SAWYER SYNTH, GUITAR AND DRUMS SOLOS · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 10 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 2 sections: 11 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tom Sawyer Synth, Guitar and Drums Solos?

87 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 Tom Sawyer Synth, Guitar and Drums Solos hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 1:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 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 Tom Sawyer Synth, Guitar and Drums Solos?

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 10 more.

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