Topical Solution · Duster

91 bars, 4:51, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 16 and 18, and 10 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TOPICAL SOLUTION · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 91
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-65.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Topical Solution?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Topical Solution hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Topical Solution?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.

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