Apparitions · Matthew Good Band

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 37-49 and 53-55 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
APPARITIONS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 19, 24, 26, 27, 59 and 3 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBHKI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apparitions?

76 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 Apparitions hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Apparitions?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 19, 24, 26, 27, 59 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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