Windowpane · Mild High Club

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27, 31 and 33, and 9 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
WINDOWPANE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-52.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Windowpane?

90 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 Windowpane hard to play on drums?

40 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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