Dearly beloved · Daughtry

104 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 62-64 and 66-68, and 4 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
DEARLY BELOVED · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 36, 45, 53, 57, 61, 65 and 12 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 18 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMFGCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dearly beloved?

127 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 Dearly beloved hard to play on drums?

41 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Dearly beloved?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 36, 45, 53, 57, 61, 65 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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