Self Care · Mac Miller

192 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 28-33 and 36-38, and 7 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SELF CARE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 73 and 116.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 22 sections: 149 keep time, 2 are fills and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-176.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART R
16 groovesDRAS1B+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Self Care?

142 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 Self Care hard to play on drums?

37 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Self Care?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 73 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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