Boy · ten56.

137 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-35 and 37-40 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BOY · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 36 and 10 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 17 sections: 74 keep time, 16 are fills, 28 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-125.

PART H
PART Q
PART AD
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAKQAUADH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boy?

142 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 Boy hard to play on drums?

47 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Boy?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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