Sitting Still · R.E.M.

123 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 24-30 and 32-54, and 7 more places -- 80.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 158 BPM
SITTING STILL · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 99.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 4 sections: 116 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-54.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sitting Still?

158 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 Sitting Still 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 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 Sitting Still?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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