Side · Travis

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-21, 23-41 and 43-46 -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SIDE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 42 and 62.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 4 sections: 75 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-82.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Side?

92 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 Side hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Side?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 42 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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