Shout It Out Loud · KISS

94 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
SHOUT IT OUT LOUD · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 81.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 82 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesDACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shout It Out Loud?

137 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 Shout It Out Loud hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Shout It Out Loud?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 81.

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