cannot get over you · requiem for you

114 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 32 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
CANNOT GET OVER YOU · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-65.

CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCDS4S1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is cannot get over you?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is cannot get over you hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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