UNDER THE TREE · SiM

88 bars, 4:45, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-33 and 77-82 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
UNDER THE TREE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 9 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
9 groovesHOMDAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is UNDER THE TREE?

74 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 UNDER THE TREE hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 UNDER THE TREE?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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