Mr. Know It All · Teddy Swims

103 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 27-52 and 54-77, and 2 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
MR. KNOW IT ALL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 79.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 6 sections: 94 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-52.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBCS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Know It All?

126 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 Mr. Know It All hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Mr. Know It All?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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