birds of a feather · Kind of Like Spitting

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-57, 60-61 and 64-65, and 1 more place -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BIRDS OF A FEATHER · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 50, 54, 58 and 66.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

PART C
PART E
PART I
PART F
PART Q
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesVFIQD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is birds of a feather?

94 BPM, in 4/4, 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 birds of a feather hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 50, 54, 58 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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