Flake · Jack Johnson

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 31-32 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
FLAKE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 53 and 57.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 5 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-80.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flake?

96 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 Flake hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flake?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 53 and 57.

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