november · letterstoyou

205 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43, 45-47 and 110, and 9 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NOVEMBER · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 24, 44, 48, 56, 57, 64 and 36 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 16 sections: 97 keep time, 42 are fills, 19 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-176.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART K
PART X
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHXGS1S14+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is november?

150 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 november hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 november?

24 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 24, 44, 48, 56, 57, 64 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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