An Honest Mistake · The Bravery

125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 14 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
AN HONEST MISTAKE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 78, 82 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 10 sections: 99 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-75.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAGSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Honest Mistake?

140 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 An Honest Mistake hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 An Honest Mistake?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 78, 82 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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