Eventually · Tame Impala

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 15-16 and 19-20, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
EVENTUALLY · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 85.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are fills, 21 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

CHORUS
PART F
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
OUTRO
BREAK 4
10 groovesCAFIS5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eventually?

77 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 Eventually hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Eventually?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 85.

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