But not kiss · Faye Webster

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12-14 and 16, and 13 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BUT NOT KISS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 44, 45, 46 and 4 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 79

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 48 keep time, 10 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-18.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS3S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is But not kiss?

82 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 But not kiss hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 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 But not kiss?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 44, 45, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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