Dandelions · Ruth B.

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12, and 7 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
DANDELIONS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 16, 39 and 40.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS6S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dandelions?

78 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 Dandelions hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dandelions?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 16, 39 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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