If You Could Only See · Tonic

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-19, 32-47 and 64-75, and 1 more place -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 17 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

PART S1
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDES1GS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If You Could Only See?

100 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 If You Could Only See hard to play on drums?

25 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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