Mayfly · Belle and Sebastian

153 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 29-35 and 43-56, and 3 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MAYFLY · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 13 sections: 136 keep time and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-112.

PART C
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART A
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesBACFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mayfly?

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 Mayfly 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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