Kisses · Slowdive

125 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 13-28 and 30-32, and 12 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
KISSES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 76, 91 and 92.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 8 sections: 107 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCAHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kisses?

128 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 Kisses hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Kisses?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 76, 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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