Centerfold · J Geils Band

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CENTERFOLD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 36 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 76-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 84 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-67.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Centerfold?

120 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 Centerfold hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Centerfold?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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