Traffick · Dark//Matter

152 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-133, 135-141 and 143-149, and 1 more place -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TRAFFICK · BAR 127
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 56, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 6 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 12 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-157.

PART A
PART D
PART E
PART F
PART D
PART E
PART F
PART H
PART D
PART E
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVFHDE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Traffick?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Traffick hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Traffick?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 56, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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