Could It Be So? · Kingston Wall

165 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
COULD IT BE SO? · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 68 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 74 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-69.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AO
PART BF
PART AP
PART BW
OUTRO
9 groovesAAAAOAPG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Could It Be So??

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Could It Be So? hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 28 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 Could It Be So??

33 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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