Play · Band-Maid

116 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 51-53, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
PLAY · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 22 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 20-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 14 sections: 60 keep time, 28 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-57.

PART B
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART O
PART AI
PART AO
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFBORAO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Play?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Play hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Play?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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