A Pearl · Mitski

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-24, 29 and 46-49 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
A PEARL · BARS 22-23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 31, 32, 33 and 7 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 36-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 5 sections: 23 keep time, 13 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFHCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Pearl?

84 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 Pearl hard to play on drums?

46 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pearl?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 31, 32, 33 and 7 more.

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