Earrings (for band) · Malcolm Todd

96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 18-32 and 34-48, and 1 more place -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
EARRINGS (FOR BAND) · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 6 sections: 76 keep time, 1 is a fill and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-48.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABS3GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Earrings (for band)?

160 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 Earrings (for band) 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Earrings (for band)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.

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