Favourite Boy · Half Moon Run

127 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22-35 and 37-51, and 7 more places -- 89.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
FAVOURITE BOY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 94, 104, 124 and 127.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 127
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars: 122 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-93.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Favourite Boy?

132 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 Favourite Boy hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Favourite Boy?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 94, 104, 124 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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