Earrings · Malcolm Todd

49 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:26 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 42-48 -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
EARRINGS · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 49
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 5 sections: 33 keep time, 1 is a fill and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Earrings?

80 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 Earrings hard to play on drums?

49 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Earrings?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 49.

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