As You Speak · On Broken Wings

143 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
AS YOU SPEAK · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 29, 30 and 6 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 12 are fills, 18 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 124-139.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART W
PART S13
PART F
OUTRO
13 groovesBFWHS13+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As You Speak?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is As You Speak hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 As You Speak?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 29, 30 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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