Father Stretch My Hands · Kanye West

64 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
FATHER STRETCH MY HANDS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 4 sections: 57 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-63.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Father Stretch My Hands?

113 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 Stretch My Hands hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Father Stretch My Hands?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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