Breakfast At Tiffany's · Deep Blue Something

115 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 43-49 and 51-57, and 3 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 30, 32, 34, 41, 42 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-21.

BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART B
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEBGS2J+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breakfast At Tiffany's?

110 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 Breakfast At Tiffany's hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Breakfast At Tiffany's?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 30, 32, 34, 41, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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