Medicate Me · Rain City Drive x Dayseeker

75 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MEDICATE ME · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 26 and 6 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 11-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 45 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

CHORUS
PART F
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFKNAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Medicate Me?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Medicate Me hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Medicate Me?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 22, 26 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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