Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head) · Powfu

44 bars, 2:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 5 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
DEATH BED (COFFEE FOR YOUR HEAD) · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)?

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

Is Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head) hard to play on drums?

44 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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