Show Your Teeth · Sarah Where Is My Tea

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 44 and 73-80 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SHOW YOUR TEETH · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 24 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 16-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 37 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART T
PART X
PART AA
PART AF
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEXAAAFB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Show Your Teeth?

105 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 Show Your Teeth hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Show Your Teeth?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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