Milquetoast · Helmet

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-20, 25-26 and 32-39, and 1 more place -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
MILQUETOAST · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29 and 15 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 27-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
PART U
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesEOBSU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Milquetoast?

88 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 Milquetoast hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Milquetoast?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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