Sit & Mourn · Knocked Loose

130 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 46, and 13 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SIT & MOURN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 21 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-105.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIAS10MS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sit & Mourn?

140 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 Sit & Mourn hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 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 Sit & Mourn?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 21 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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