Song I like 4 · Zacharie Boivin

107 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 16 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
SONG I LIKE 4 · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 17 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 23 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGLAABAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song I like 4?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Song I like 4 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

107 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Song I like 4?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 17 more.

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