Neon · John Mayer

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 38-44 and 46-51, and 6 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 103 BPM
NEON · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 30, 37, 45, 62, 73 and 1 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 6 sections: 99 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

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

Questions

What BPM is Neon?

103 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 Neon hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Neon?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 30, 37, 45, 62, 73 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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