Flowers · A Day To Remember

120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-43 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FLOWERS · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 19 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 73 keep time, 26 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-36.

PART E
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQEMIV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flowers?

150 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 Flowers hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Flowers?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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