Bells · MammAlien

47 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 11-18 and 29-34 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BELLS · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 20.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK 2
6 groovesS7CLMS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bells?

95 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Bells hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bells?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 20.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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