Dress · Pj Harvey

121 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 13-14 and 16-17, and 20 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 157 BPM
DRESS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 2 sections: 100 keep time and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dress?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dress hard to play on drums?

38 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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