She Is Beautiful · Andrew W.K.

141 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 54-68 and 70-76 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
SHE IS BEAUTIFUL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 69 and 2 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 50-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 8 are fills, 28 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-141.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJHOCP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Is Beautiful?

172 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 She Is Beautiful hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 She Is Beautiful?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 69 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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