Real World · Matchbox Twenty

111 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 14-16 and 30-33, and 18 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
REAL WORLD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 29, 37, 49 and 10 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 17 sections: 75 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-86.

PART C
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
3 groovesBCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Real World?

118 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 Real World 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Real World?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 29, 37, 49 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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