In Repair · John Mayer

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-93, 95-101 and 103-109 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
IN REPAIR · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-93.

PART C
PART E
PART L
PART E
PART G
PART L
PART J
PART E
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSEGJL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Repair?

76 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 In Repair hard to play on drums?

46 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 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 In Repair?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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