Simple Boy · Karnivool

185 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-104, 106-108 and 111-112, and 11 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
SIMPLE BOY · BAR 106
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 13 sections: 131 keep time, 1 is a fill, 29 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-40.

PART D
PART E
PART E
PART S8
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTES8DQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Simple Boy?

131 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 Simple Boy hard to play on drums?

56 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Simple Boy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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