Beetlebum · Blur

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-23, 50-58 and 74-104, and 1 more place -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BEETLEBUM · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 105 and 113.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART S4
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beetlebum?

90 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 Beetlebum hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Beetlebum?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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