Despicable · Grandson

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 46-54 and 67-69 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
DESPICABLE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 13 sections: 52 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-70.

COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
9 groovesGHCAS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Despicable?

88 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 Despicable hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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