Playing Your Song · Hole

97 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 16 more places -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
PLAYING YOUR SONG · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-46.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playing Your Song?

127 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 Playing Your Song 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Playing Your Song?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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