Problems · Mother Mother

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-12, and 9 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
PROBLEMS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 43, 44, 45, 54, 55 and 6 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 54-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART K
6 groovesCMKS1S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Problems?

104 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 Problems hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Problems?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 43, 44, 45, 54, 55 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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