lets start a band · amy mcdonald

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-63 and 68-79 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
LETS START A BAND · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 89.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-79.

PART B
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGS2S6ID+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is lets start a band?

94 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 lets start a band hard to play on drums?

37 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in lets start a band?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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