Almost · Bowling For Soup

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 2:59 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-23 and 33-47, and 5 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
ALMOST · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 48, 65, 84, 85, 97 and 2 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 37 keep time, 8 are fills, 50 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBES11S2S9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Almost?

107 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Almost hard to play on drums?

58 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Almost?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 48, 65, 84, 85, 97 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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