Maybe Next Time · Rainbow

68 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-50, 52-59 and 64-65 -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MAYBE NEXT TIME · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 3 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 4 sections: 27 keep time, 9 are fills, 18 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCOS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maybe Next Time?

125 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 Maybe Next Time hard to play on drums?

39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Maybe Next Time?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 27, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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