Naive · The Kooks

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 63-65, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
NAIVE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 34, 38 and 10 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNAICW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Naive?

104 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 Naive hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Naive?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 34, 38 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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