Eating Sandwiches · George Bryce

126 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 13 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
EATING SANDWICHES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 125.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 7 sections: 113 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-46.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAOGLDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eating Sandwiches?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Eating Sandwiches hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Eating Sandwiches?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 125.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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