Long Snake Moan · PJ Harvey

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 25-27 and 37-38, and 5 more places -- 56.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
LONG SNAKE MOAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 75, 76 and 96.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 88 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-36.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Snake Moan?

76 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 Long Snake Moan hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Long Snake Moan?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 75, 76 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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