Little Talks · Of Monsters And Men

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 27-29 and 31-32, and 7 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
LITTLE TALKS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 24, 25, 33, 48, 49 and 4 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-93.

PART C
PART S2
CHORUS
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCS8S2JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Talks?

105 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 Little Talks hard to play on drums?

58 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Little Talks?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 24, 25, 33, 48, 49 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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