Messy · Lola Young

121 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 7 more places -- 90.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 65, 73, 97 and 105.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars: 116 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-64.

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

Questions

What BPM is Messy?

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 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?

121 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 Messy?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 65, 73, 97 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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