A Little Less Conversation · Junkie XL vs Elvis Presley

101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-28, 31-37 and 39-43, and 3 more places -- 62.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-77.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFCS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Little Less Conversation?

115 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?

39 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A Little Less Conversation?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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