Quietly · Guano Apes

100 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 52-54, and 7 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
QUIETLY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 5 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-58.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quietly?

123 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 Quietly hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Quietly?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

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