Inevitable · Shakira

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-33, 50-56 and 58-63 -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 93 BPM
INEVITABLE · BARS 28-29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 34, 46, 47 and 3 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 5 sections: 35 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inevitable?

93 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 Inevitable hard to play on drums?

42 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Inevitable?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 34, 46, 47 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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