Drown · Strange Boutique

130 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 19-52 and 55-60, and 7 more places -- 70.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 113 BPM
DROWN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 53, 65, 73, 75, 85 and 3 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 116-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 2 sections: 103 keep time, 11 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-52.

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

Questions

What BPM is Drown?

113 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 Drown hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drown?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 53, 65, 73, 75, 85 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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