Promises Full · Cranberries

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 13 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
PROMISES FULL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 46, 47, 55, 63, 71, 94 and 9 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 8 sections: 130 keep time, 15 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-45.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Promises Full?

105 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 Full hard to play on drums?

36 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Promises Full?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 46, 47, 55, 63, 71, 94 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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