Being Boring · Pet Shop Boys

143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 41-45 and 56-70, and 2 more places -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BEING BORING · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 127 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-143.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFDHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Being Boring?

120 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 Being Boring hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Being Boring?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

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