Closer to Fine Bass · Indigo Girls

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 33-44 and 57-60, and 1 more place -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
CLOSER TO FINE BASS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 15 sections: 55 keep time, 1 is a stop and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE 2
VERSE 4
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
9 groovesCBS1S14D+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closer to Fine Bass?

98 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 Closer to Fine Bass hard to play on drums?

38 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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