Join Me (rare demo 1998) · HIM

163 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 39-52 and 69-98, and 3 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
JOIN ME (RARE DEMO 1998) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 68, 116, 147 and 148.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 147-148 · LANDS ON BAR 149 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 11 sections: 140 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-98.

INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCGS1IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Join Me (rare demo 1998)?

115 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 Join Me (rare demo 1998) 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Join Me (rare demo 1998)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 68, 116, 147 and 148.

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