Dear H · Xdinary heroes

49 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 1:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 37-39 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
DEAR H · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 8, 33, 36, 40, 44 and 3 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 7 sections: 7 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 25 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS4EKS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear H?

104 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 Dear H hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Dear H?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 8, 33, 36, 40, 44 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 49 BARS ANALYSED
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