Broken Window Serenade · Whiskey Myers

201 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-135 -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BROKEN WINDOW SERENADE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 136 and 200.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 200 · LANDS ON BAR 201
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 7 sections: 175 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-135.

CHORUS
PART D
PART S3
PART D
5 groovesADS3FCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Window Serenade?

150 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 Broken Window Serenade hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Broken Window Serenade?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 136 and 200.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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