Count 'Em · Brandon Lake

132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 33 and 35, and 6 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
COUNT 'EM · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 51, 52, 59, 60, 100, 107 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 65 keep time, 11 are fills, 15 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-76.

COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
PART N
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCNDKS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Count 'Em?

140 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 Count 'Em hard to play on drums?

41 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Count 'Em?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 51, 52, 59, 60, 100, 107 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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