Beer! · Psychostick

63 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48 and 52-62 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BEER! · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41 and 63.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 6 sections: 49 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-62.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDNCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beer!?

125 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 Beer! hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Beer!?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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