Screen Shot (To Be Kind) · Swans

377 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 142 BPM, 7:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
377
LENGTH
7:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 59 and 71, and 51 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SCREEN SHOT (TO BE KIND) · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 304.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 304 · LANDS ON BAR 305
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

377 bars across 19 sections: 329 keep time, 2 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 305-376.

PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGPEKH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Screen Shot (To Be Kind)?

142 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Screen Shot (To Be Kind) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

377 bars, about 7:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Screen Shot (To Be Kind)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 304.

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