Circles · Post Malone

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-48 and 65-80, and 1 more place -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CIRCLES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 102.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 101-102 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
8 groovesBCES1G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Circles?

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 Circles 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Circles?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 101 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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