Not Strong Enough · boygenius

120 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 17-19 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
NOT STRONG ENOUGH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 52, 56, 60 and 8 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 96-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 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: 89 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCNTOM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Strong Enough?

128 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 Not Strong Enough hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 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 Not Strong Enough?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 52, 56, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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