First Love/Late Spring · Mitski

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31-44 and 71-77, and 3 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FIRST LOVE/LATE SPRING · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 51, 101, 103 and 111.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCBLNS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Love/Late Spring?

100 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 First Love/Late Spring hard to play on drums?

44 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in First Love/Late Spring?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 51, 101, 103 and 111.

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