Beach Baby · First Class

154 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 17 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BEACH BABY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 18, 26, 27 and 10 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 14 sections: 113 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-128.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIADJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beach Baby?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beach Baby hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Beach Baby?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 18, 26, 27 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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