She Plays Bass · Beabadoobee

115 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 10 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
SHE PLAYS BASS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 48, 54 and 23 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 55 keep time, 29 are fills, 4 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCS9S1T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Plays Bass?

136 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 She Plays Bass hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Plays Bass?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 48, 54 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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