She Is Afraid · Motion City Soundtrack

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SHE IS AFRAID · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 37 and 20 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS6HFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Is Afraid?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 She Is Afraid hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 She Is Afraid?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 37 and 20 more.

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