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.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-136 -- 73.1% 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

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 200.

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

How the song is built

201 bars across 4 sections: 181 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-136.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABS3Fill 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?

49 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 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 200.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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