Close To Me · Hi-STANDARD

115 bars at 223 BPM -- fast, and 2:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
223 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-14 and 48-53, and 1 more place -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 223 BPM
CLOSE TO ME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 15, 17, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

LOOP · 223 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 223 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 223 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 223 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 30 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART V
PART X
PART AB
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAACGOT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Close To Me?

223 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 Close To Me hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Close To Me?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 15, 17, 25, 26, 27 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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