Bags · Clairo

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 34-41 and 50-65, and 1 more place -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAGS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bags?

106 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 Bags hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bags?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

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