So Long · Fischer-Z

159 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 16-21 and 23-25, and 22 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SO LONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 26, 46, 50, 54, 58 and 17 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 2 sections: 134 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-92.

OUTRO
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Long?

126 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 So Long hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 So Long?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 26, 46, 50, 54, 58 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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