Mostly Hair and Bones Now · Gaza

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-21, 26 and 73-74, and 2 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MOSTLY HAIR AND BONES NOW · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23 and 27 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 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 10 sections: 28 keep time, 33 are fills, 6 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-91.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
PART Q
PART W
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS1KQAP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mostly Hair and Bones Now?

90 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 Mostly Hair and Bones Now hard to play on drums?

64 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Mostly Hair and Bones Now?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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