Come As You Are · Mckenzie

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
COME AS YOU ARE · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 31, 51, 87 and 107.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 9 sections: 80 keep time, 5 are fills, 13 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-79.

PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBES6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come As You Are?

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 Come As You Are hard to play on drums?

59 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Come As You Are?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 31, 51, 87 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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