Bored · Return to Dust

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BORED · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 18, 30, 38, 46, 62 and 3 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-61.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesKBHGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bored?

86 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 Bored hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bored?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 18, 30, 38, 46, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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