Desire · Meg Myers

150 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-39, 41-47 and 49-79, and 3 more places -- 89.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
DESIRE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 88.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 4 sections: 110 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-87.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desire?

132 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 Desire hard to play on drums?

33 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Desire?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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