Desperately · Michelle Branch

89 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20, 30-40 and 66-88 -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
DESPERATELY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 41, 53 and 57.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 5 sections: 79 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-89.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desperately?

118 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 Desperately hard to play on drums?

31 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Desperately?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 41, 53 and 57.

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