Just As Was Told · Lift To Experience

217 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-79, 90 and 92, and 3 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
JUST AS WAS TOLD · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 61, 65, 69, 83, 111, 150 and 4 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 23 sections: 95 keep time, 11 are fills, 72 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-109.

CHORUS
PART G
PART V
PART U
PART AN
PART AP
19 groovesS2APUVAN+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just As Was Told?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Just As Was Told hard to play on drums?

62 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 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 Just As Was Told?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 61, 65, 69, 83, 111, 150 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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