Sports · Viagra Boys

97 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-68 and 81-96 -- 86.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
SPORTS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 72.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 3 sections: 91 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-67.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sports?

133 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 Sports hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sports?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 72.

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