Dear My Songs · Over Arm Throw

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59-65, 67-71 and 103-107 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
DEAR MY SONGS · BARS 60-61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 5-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 54 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-26.

PART S2
PART K
PART M
PART O
PART V
CHORUS
PART AE
PART V
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAAAOVMK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear My Songs?

78 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 Dear My Songs hard to play on drums?

63 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dear My Songs?

13 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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