Father Of Mine · Everclear

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21-23, and 17 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
FATHER OF MINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 36, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 15 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGHEJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Father Of Mine?

98 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 Father Of Mine hard to play on drums?

55 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Father Of Mine?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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