A Little Less Conversation · Elvis Presley

63 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 10, and 13 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 31 and 32.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 5 sections: 54 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-63.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Little Less Conversation?

118 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 A Little Less Conversation hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Little Less Conversation?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 31 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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