Uzis Akimbo · World Of Pleasure

77 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 21-23 and 25 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
UZIS AKIMBO · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 12, 14, 18 and 28 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 7 sections: 26 keep time, 35 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-66.

PART C
PART H
PART E
PART O
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesXHAJCO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Uzis Akimbo?

135 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 Uzis Akimbo hard to play on drums?

48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Uzis Akimbo?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 12, 14, 18 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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