Beanie · Chezile

101 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 2:11 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 13 more places -- 67.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BEANIE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS1S3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beanie?

139 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Beanie hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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