Our House · Madness

101 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
OUR HOUSE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 97 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-101.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our House?

121 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 Our House hard to play on drums?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Our House?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

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