Say on Harry Bro · Sullen

78 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-22 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SAY ON HARRY BRO · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 27, 35, 52 and 8 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 16 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART B
PART G
PART J
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesQJGBW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say on Harry Bro?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Say on Harry Bro hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Say on Harry Bro?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 27, 35, 52 and 8 more.

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