Trademark · Eric Johnson

138 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 4:42 of playing on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-36 and 38-40, and 1 more place -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 176 BPM
TRADEMARK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-92.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trademark?

176 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Trademark hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Trademark?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 41.

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