Bookend Song · UNBEATABLE

477 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 20:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
477
LENGTH
20:57
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 192, 194-196 and 198-199, and 3 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BOOKEND SONG · BARS 194-195
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 40 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

477 bars across 49 sections: 209 keep time, 47 are fills, 88 are stops and 102 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-75.

BREAK 7
PART CO
PART S43
37 groovesABFS30BICO+32Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bookend Song?

90 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 Bookend Song hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

477 bars, about 20:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 122 exercises over 31 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bookend Song?

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 477 BARS ANALYSED
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