Hand Me Downs v2 · Mac Miller

77 bars, 4:28, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-21 and 27-37, and 9 more places -- 80.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
HAND ME DOWNS V2 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 73 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-52.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand Me Downs v2?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hand Me Downs v2 hard to play on drums?

36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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