Solitude Is Bliss · Tame Impala

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 25-31 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 103 BPM
SOLITUDE IS BLISS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 24, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 16 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 14 sections: 58 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCDZNJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Solitude Is Bliss?

103 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 Solitude Is Bliss hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Solitude Is Bliss?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 24, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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