Gentle Thoughts · Herbie Hancock

186 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 7:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32, 34-40 and 45-48, and 4 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
GENTLE THOUGHTS · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 138, 139, 151, 159 and 167.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 138-139 · LANDS ON BAR 140 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 151 · LANDS ON BAR 152 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 159 · LANDS ON BAR 160
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 16 sections: 160 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCALGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gentle Thoughts?

105 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 Gentle Thoughts hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gentle Thoughts?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 138, 139, 151, 159 and 167.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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