Am I Bothering You? · Reality Club

126 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27 and 118-121 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
AM I BOTHERING YOU? · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 30, 31, 58, 59, 60 and 6 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 58-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 41 keep time, 13 are fills, 57 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-57.

PART S2
PART E
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
11 groovesBKEFS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Am I Bothering You??

136 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 Am I Bothering You? hard to play on drums?

48 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Am I Bothering You??

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 30, 31, 58, 59, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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