My Choice Of Words · Confide

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MY CHOICE OF WORDS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 28, 36, 64, 72, 80 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 14 sections: 83 keep time, 9 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-47.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLAOFY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Choice Of Words?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Choice Of Words hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 My Choice Of Words?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 28, 36, 64, 72, 80 and 3 more.

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