Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone · Akkirus Risen

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 35-42 and 71-85, and 1 more place -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
KEEP CLOSE A WISH YOU CAN'T SHOW TO ANYONE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 26, 50 and 1 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-114.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDHIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone?

102 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 Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Keep Close A Wish You Can't Show To Anyone?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 26, 50 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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