poster boy · 2hollis

56 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 25-31 and 41-48 -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 111 BPM
POSTER BOY · BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

COUNT-IN
PART B
VERSE
PART B
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCEBS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is poster boy?

111 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 poster boy hard to play on drums?

61 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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