Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one · Employee of the Month

178 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 23 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
GET YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER BEFORE YOU HAVE ONE · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20 and 14 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 18 sections: 124 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-136.

PART J
PART M
PART S
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS
PART AV
PART AZ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesXAZAVAFM+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one?

154 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 Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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