Getaway · Blossoms

114 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28, 30-56 and 58-64, and 4 more places -- 91.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
GETAWAY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 57, 65, 81, 89 and 105.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time, 6 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-56.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Getaway?

117 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 Getaway hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Getaway?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 57, 65, 81, 89 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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