Self-Control · Laura, Branigan

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-56 and 71-86, and 1 more place -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
SELF-CONTROL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 97 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-56.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Self-Control?

107 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-Control hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

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