Accidentally In Love · Counting Crows

105 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 18-24 and 36-41, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 34, 35, 42 and 14 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time, 20 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
6 groovesCGWBS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Accidentally In Love?

138 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 Accidentally In Love hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Accidentally In Love?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 34, 35, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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