Little Thoughts · Bloc Party

145 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-35 and 37, and 7 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
LITTLE THOUGHTS · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 40, 56 and 15 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 11 sections: 84 keep time, 21 are fills, 27 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGAENPC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Thoughts?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Little Thoughts hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Thoughts?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 40, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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