BIRDS OF A FEATHER · Billie Eilish

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-24 and 27-33, and 5 more places -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BIRDS OF A FEATHER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 34.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 4 sections: 84 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BIRDS OF A FEATHER?

105 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 BIRDS OF A FEATHER hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 BIRDS OF A FEATHER?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 34.

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