I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus · Beabadoobee

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20-22, and 13 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
I WISH I WAS STEPHEN MALKMUS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 36, 59, 63, 65, 66 and 2 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 65-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 59 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus?

81 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 I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus hard to play on drums?

39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 36, 59, 63, 65, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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