waves · Blake kaye

25 bars, 1:20, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9 and 14-25 -- 95.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
WAVES · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 21 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-25.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is waves?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is waves 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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