Since When Do Clouds Move? · Totally Nameless

169 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 139-141, 143-145 and 147-149, and 5 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
SINCE WHEN DO CLOUDS MOVE? · BAR 140
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 52, 56, 64, 72, 75, 76 and 28 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 14 sections: 104 keep time, 34 are fills, 16 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART C
PART L
PART O
PART U
PART R
PART AA
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBKAAS14OL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Since When Do Clouds Move??

171 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 Since When Do Clouds Move? hard to play on drums?

57 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Since When Do Clouds Move??

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 52, 56, 64, 72, 75, 76 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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