Movement · Hozier

128 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-7 and 9, and 25 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MOVEMENT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 106 and 114.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-58.

PART B
PART S5
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesABGHS5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Movement?

140 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 Movement hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Movement?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 106 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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