Come said the boy · Mondo Rock

134 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-42, 45-58 and 60-73, and 6 more places -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
COME SAID THE BOY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 98, 106 and 122.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 4 sections: 126 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-80.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come said the boy?

118 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 said the boy hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 said the boy?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 98, 106 and 122.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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