Virtually Scatterbrained · Alternative Competition 7

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 16-22 and 24-28, and 4 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
VIRTUALLY SCATTERBRAINED · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 42, 59, 68 and 79.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 5 are fills, 20 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-14.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART W
OUTRO
10 groovesCS11GWS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Virtually Scatterbrained?

85 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 Virtually Scatterbrained hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Virtually Scatterbrained?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 42, 59, 68 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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