Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart · Against Me!

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 and 22-44 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BORNE ON THE FM WAVES OF THE HEART · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 45, 77, 91, 92, 109 and 2 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 126-127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 7 sections: 108 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-44.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBIOS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart?

125 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 Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart hard to play on drums?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Borne On The Fm Waves Of The Heart?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 45, 77, 91, 92, 109 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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