What We Have Done · Fixation

144 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31-33, and 24 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WHAT WE HAVE DONE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 25, 26, 34 and 9 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 108 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-78.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBUAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What We Have Done?

122 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 What We Have Done hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 What We Have Done?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 25, 26, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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