Universe · Apace

86 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 43-50 and 78-85 -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
UNIVERSE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 27, 54 and 86.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-77.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIKECS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Universe?

140 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 Universe hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Universe?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 27, 54 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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