Mellow (more accurate version) · Whirr

70 bars, 5:29, at 51 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
51 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 and 38-52 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 51 BPM
MELLOW (MORE ACCURATE VERSION) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26 and 12 more.

LOOP · 51 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 51 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 51 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 51 BPM
BARS 29-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 5 sections: 43 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mellow (more accurate version)?

51 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mellow (more accurate version) hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mellow (more accurate version)?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26 and 12 more.

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