Drinking Problem · Midland

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-29 and 48-50, and 3 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
DRINKING PROBLEM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 47 and 77.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-46.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDHLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drinking Problem?

102 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 Drinking Problem hard to play on drums?

48 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Drinking Problem?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 47 and 77.

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