more than words · Hitsujibungaku

154 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-56 and 73-130 -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MORE THAN WORDS · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 5 sections: 149 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-130.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCAFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is more than words?

130 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 more than words hard to play on drums?

50 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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