Calling After Me · Wallows

109 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-32, and 9 more places -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
CALLING AFTER ME · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 41.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars: 107 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-109.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calling After Me?

140 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 Calling After Me 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Calling After Me?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 41.

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