Damned If I Do · Vincent Mason

62 bars, 3:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
DAMNED IF I DO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 4 sections: 43 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damned If I Do?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Damned If I Do hard to play on drums?

38 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?

62 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Damned If I Do?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 34, 38, 42, 46, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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