Awful · Hole

105 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26 and 28, and 7 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
AWFUL · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 40, 48 and 8 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 61-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBHKL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Awful?

138 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 Awful hard to play on drums?

54 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Awful?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 40, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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