Speaking Gently · Badbadnotgood

13 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-12 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SPEAKING GENTLY · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars across 4 sections: 9 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

COUNT-IN
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Speaking Gently?

145 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 Speaking Gently hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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