Edge Of Desire · John Mayer

238 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 5:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-48, 50-80 and 82-112, and 3 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
EDGE OF DESIRE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 49, 113, 148, 149, 153 and 18 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 148-149 · LANDS ON BAR 150 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 173 · LANDS ON BAR 174 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 4 sections: 177 keep time, 24 are fills, 33 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-33.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBFDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edge Of Desire?

132 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Edge Of Desire hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Edge Of Desire?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 49, 113, 148, 149, 153 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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