Quiet · This Will Destroy You

101 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-35 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
QUIET · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 76, 84, 92 and 100.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 5 are fills, 35 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quiet?

115 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 Quiet hard to play on drums?

37 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 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 Quiet?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 76, 84, 92 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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