Speechless · Dan + Shay

49 bars, 2:53, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare and high tom and nothing else.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 13, and 8 more places -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 68 BPM
SPEECHLESS · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 4 sections: 40 keep time, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Speechless?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Speechless hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and high tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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