Little Things · Good Charlotte

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 44-46 and 48-50, and 2 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
LITTLE THINGS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 15, 23, 27 and 16 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 15 sections: 45 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-85.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIKMDF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Things?

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 Things hard to play on drums?

61 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Little Things?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 15, 23, 27 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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