I Can't Fix You · The Living Tombstone

185 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicPop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-83, 85-91 and 93-99, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
I CAN'T FIX YOU · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 29, 30, 48, 54, 68 and 11 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 13 sections: 119 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-134.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART Q
PART S9
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFBQKU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Can't Fix You?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Can't Fix You hard to play on drums?

60 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Can't Fix You?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 29, 30, 48, 54, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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