Drain Me! · Towa Bird

62 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 19-29 and 31-34, and 1 more place -- 78.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DRAIN ME! · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 62.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 9 sections: 50 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

CHORUS
PART C
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBCS6ED+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drain Me!?

125 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 Drain Me! hard to play on drums?

53 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drain Me!?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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