Simple · Booze & Glory

166 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 30-36 and 43-44, and 14 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
SIMPLE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 16 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 22 are fills, 47 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-115.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesGBWAAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Simple?

176 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 Simple hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Simple?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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