Messy Drums · Lola Young

122 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-23 and 26-32, and 11 more places -- 85.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 111 BPM
MESSY DRUMS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 25, 33, 40, 41, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars: 112 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-96.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Messy Drums?

111 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 Messy Drums hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Messy Drums?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 25, 33, 40, 41, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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