Normal People Things · Lovejoy

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NORMAL PEOPLE THINGS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 55, 62, 63, 79, 87 and 5 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 9 sections: 94 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-46.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHBMQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Normal People Things?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Normal People Things hard to play on drums?

58 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?

120 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Normal People Things?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 55, 62, 63, 79, 87 and 5 more.

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