Weight of Sound · Stick Figure

129 bars, 7:16, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-58, 77-79 and 92-104, and 3 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 71 BPM
WEIGHT OF SOUND · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 48 and 68.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 15 sections: 96 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-105.

PART B
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART S10
PART P
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJCFBR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Weight of Sound?

71 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 Weight of Sound hard to play on drums?

55 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 7:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Weight of Sound?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 48 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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