Here For The Party · dasha

105 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 41-44 and 51-52, and 6 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
HERE FOR THE PARTY · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 28, 29, 33, 45, 53 and 14 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 14 sections: 59 keep time, 20 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJGCWB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here For The Party?

124 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 Here For The Party hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Here For The Party?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 28, 29, 33, 45, 53 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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