Beastly · Vulfpeck

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 20 and 24, and 6 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BEASTLY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 29-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 4 sections: 49 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-47.

PART A
PART D
OUTRO
VERSE
4 groovesCDATFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beastly?

79 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 Beastly hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Beastly?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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