Birdhouse In Your Soul · They Might Be Giants

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 13-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 77 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-81.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEGAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Birdhouse In Your Soul?

100 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 Birdhouse In Your Soul hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit 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?

81 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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