Sit next to me · Foster the people studio version

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 79.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SIT NEXT TO ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 64 and 88.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 5 sections: 71 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1BS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sit next to me?

97 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 next to me hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Sit next to me?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 64 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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