But The Regrets Are Killing Me · American Football

130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:29 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 9 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BUT THE REGRETS ARE KILLING ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 116 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-79.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCFLHE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is But The Regrets Are Killing Me?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Regrets Are Killing Me hard to play on drums?

59 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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