why · Lynith

66 bars, 3:31, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 10-16 and 18, and 5 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
WHY · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a fill and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-66.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is why?

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 why hard to play on drums?

43 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 why?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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