Refrain Boy · ALL OFF

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-56 and 83-89, and 7 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
REFRAIN BOY · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 13, 15, 17 and 40 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 46 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-80.

PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AP
OUTRO
13 groovesXFMZAP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Refrain Boy?

140 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 Refrain Boy 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Refrain Boy?

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 13, 15, 17 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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