Cheer Me On · Malcom Todd

49 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CHEER ME ON · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 44, 46 and 48.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 5 sections: 34 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheer Me On?

90 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 Cheer Me On hard to play on drums?

30 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Cheer Me On?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 44, 46 and 48.

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