Almost · Lewis Capaldi

51 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 27-33 and 38-41, and 1 more place -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ALMOST · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 22, 26, 34, 42 and 50.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 5 sections: 36 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Almost?

80 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 Almost hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Almost?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 22, 26, 34, 42 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 51 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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