Beach House · wishes

173 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-78, 85-87 and 133-162, and 1 more place -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BEACH HOUSE · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 96, 100 and 112.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 150 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-53.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
9 groovesDBIEK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beach House?

148 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 Beach House hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Beach House?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 96, 100 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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