Ask For Answers · Placebo

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 31-33, and 8 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
ASK FOR ANSWERS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 30, 38 and 46.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 5 sections: 86 keep time, 4 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-106.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesAKCS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ask For Answers?

82 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 Ask For Answers hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Ask For Answers?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 30, 38 and 46.

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