Punching Bag · Set It Off

86 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
PUNCHING BAG · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 13 sections: 31 keep time, 28 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-17.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIFXSS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Punching Bag?

116 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 Punching Bag hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Punching Bag?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

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