Compliments · Bloc Party

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-69 -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
COMPLIMENTS · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 70.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 3 sections: 63 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-69.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Compliments?

80 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 Compliments hard to play on drums?

31 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Compliments?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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