Choose Me · BAND-MAID

161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 17 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CHOOSE ME · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 57, 73, 160 and 161.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 160-161 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 12 sections: 132 keep time, 5 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-152.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART T
OUTRO
6 groovesCFJRT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Choose Me?

180 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 Choose Me hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Choose Me?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 57, 73, 160 and 161.

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