Cumbersome (with drums) · Seven Mary Three

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-13, 17 and 21-29, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
CUMBERSOME (WITH DRUMS) · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 61, 68, 69 and 8 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 45-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 68-77 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 7 sections: 43 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-34.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesBPES5F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cumbersome (with drums)?

81 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 Cumbersome (with drums) hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cumbersome (with drums)?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 61, 68, 69 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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