It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World · Krobak

216 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 10:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
10:03
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-34 and 36, and 14 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
IT'S SNOWING LIKE IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 137, 139, 143, 145, 147, 149 and 6 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 149-151 · LANDS ON BAR 152 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 183 · LANDS ON BAR 184 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 214-215 · LANDS ON BAR 216 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 9 sections: 99 keep time, 12 are fills, 70 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-34.

CHORUS
PART C
PART S4
PART H
PART I
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBS4EIC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World?

86 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 It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World hard to play on drums?

43 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 10:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 137, 139, 143, 145, 147, 149 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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