Your Latest Trick · Dire Straits

183 bars, 10:16, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
10:16
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34-36, and 70 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 71 BPM
YOUR LATEST TRICK · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 141 and 181.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 181 · LANDS ON BAR 182
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 5 sections: 169 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-140.

PART B
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBES1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Latest Trick?

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 Your Latest Trick hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 10:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Your Latest Trick?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 141 and 181.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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