Snakelike · whatsaheart

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 18-20 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SNAKELIKE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 29 and 7 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 8 sections: 34 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snakelike?

88 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 Snakelike 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Snakelike?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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