Promises · Cranberries

108 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 12 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PROMISES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 91 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesBFJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Promises?

110 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 Promises hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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