Collect Sadness · Whirr

194 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-160 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
COLLECT SADNESS · BAR 130
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 13, 57, 69, 77, 105 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 165 · LANDS ON BAR 166 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 177 · LANDS ON BAR 178

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 10 sections: 92 keep time, 12 are fills and 84 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-161.

PART C
PART G
PART D
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesIDGCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Collect Sadness?

150 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 Collect Sadness hard to play on drums?

36 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?

194 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Collect Sadness?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 13, 57, 69, 77, 105 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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