Selfish · Jordan Davis

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-39, 50-53 and 55, and 4 more places -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SELFISH · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 49, 54, 56 and 60.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 60 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-39.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Selfish?

90 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 Selfish hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Selfish?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 49, 54, 56 and 60.

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