Concrete · Lovejoy

138 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
CONCRETE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 28, 56, 64, 72 and 12 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 104 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
VERSE
PART I
PART K
VERSE 2
CHORUS
PART U
PART N
VERSE 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCQNAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Concrete?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Concrete hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Concrete?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 16, 28, 56, 64, 72 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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