Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth) · Placebo

97 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 41-48 and 73-83, and 1 more place -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
ALLERGIC (TO THOUGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH) · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56 and 5 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-83.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCIOL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)?

117 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 Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth) hard to play on drums?

51 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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