Flower · Eels

57 bars, 3:15, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 17 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
FLOWER · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 4 sections: 47 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flower?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Flower hard to play on drums?

37 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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