A Bar Song (Tipsy) · Shaboozey

114 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 39, and 10 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
A BAR SONG (TIPSY) · BAR 101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 98.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-114.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGS1S6S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Bar Song (Tipsy)?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Bar Song (Tipsy) hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:49 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, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Bar Song (Tipsy)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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