Baggy Trousers · Madness

104 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 28 and 32, and 8 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAGGY TROUSERS · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 29 and 5 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 11 are fills, 16 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-44.

PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIPDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baggy Trousers?

143 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 Baggy Trousers hard to play on drums?

55 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Baggy Trousers?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 29 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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