Apologize · Onerepublic

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom and mid tom.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
15/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 19 more places -- 75.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
APOLOGIZE · BARS 6-7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 2 sections: 87 keep time, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-68.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apologize?

120 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 Apologize hard to play on drums?

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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