Baldpate Driver · Fleshwater

131 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 19 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BALDPATE DRIVER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 123-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 10 sections: 107 keep time, 8 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-35.

PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDSBCAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baldpate Driver?

130 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 Baldpate Driver hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Baldpate Driver?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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