Secretly · Skunk Anansie

243 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 63, 71-77 and 85-91, and 6 more places -- 20.7% 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
SECRETLY · BARS 71-72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 94, 138, 170, 178, 184, 203 and 2 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 170 · LANDS ON BAR 171
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 178 · LANDS ON BAR 179 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 203-204 · LANDS ON BAR 205 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 22 sections: 161 keep time, 8 are fills, 8 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-113.

PART C
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKDS4HE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Secretly?

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

Is Secretly hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Secretly?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 94, 138, 170, 178, 184, 203 and 2 more.

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