My Stick · Bad Lip Reading

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-41, 57-58 and 62-71, and 6 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MY STICK · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 14 sections: 109 keep time, 1 is a fill and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-119.

BREAK 2
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesEDS3HI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Stick?

120 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 My Stick hard to play on drums?

32 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in My Stick?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

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