Iris · Goo Goo Dolls

106 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 33-39 and 49, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
IRIS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 25 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 31 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBQS10V+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Iris?

78 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Iris hard to play on drums?

57 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Iris?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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