Sometimes · Ash

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-11 and 30-31, and 11 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SOMETIMES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 29, 45, 46, 54, 71 and 3 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 76 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

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

Questions

What BPM is Sometimes?

104 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 Sometimes hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Sometimes?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 29, 45, 46, 54, 71 and 3 more.

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