Beer · Reel Big Fish

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 19 and 21, and 10 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BEER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 20, 40, 54 and 10 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-86.

PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEOKGM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beer?

105 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 Beer hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Beer?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 20, 40, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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