Sing Along · Ethan Lesmeister

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-24, and 14 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SING ALONG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 31, 45, 51 and 11 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 12 sections: 103 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-44.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesDIXMAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sing Along?

150 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 Sing Along hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 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 Sing Along?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 31, 45, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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