If We Speak Quietly · Lower Definition

129 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 20 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
IF WE SPEAK QUIETLY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 28, 30, 34, 36, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 91 keep time, 16 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-23.

CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART M
PART Q
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBSVFM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If We Speak Quietly?

157 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 If We Speak Quietly hard to play on drums?

62 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?

129 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 If We Speak Quietly?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 28, 30, 34, 36, 48 and 10 more.

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