So Real · Jeff Buckley

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 39-44 and 47-50, and 2 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
SO REAL · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 38, 46, 60, 64, 66 and 13 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-37.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFKS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So Real?

79 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 Real hard to play on drums?

64 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Real?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 38, 46, 60, 64, 66 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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