Friend · Blackmail

240 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 7:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 19 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
FRIEND · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 172.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 172 · LANDS ON BAR 173
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 10 sections: 202 keep time, 1 is a fill, 17 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 209-240.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDFS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Friend?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Friend 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Friend?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 172.

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