*Sobs Quietly* · Mom Jeans.

39 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 2:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3 and 6-10 -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
*SOBS QUIETLY* · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 12, 18, 19, 22, 26 and 5 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 5 sections: 22 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

CHORUS
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIOTMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is *Sobs Quietly*?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 *Sobs Quietly* hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 *Sobs Quietly*?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 12, 18, 19, 22, 26 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 39 BARS ANALYSED
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