Stairs · Design19

134 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-30, 49-54 and 59, and 9 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 141 BPM
STAIRS · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 55, 56, 71 and 4 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-22.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesIDQOS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stairs?

141 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 Stairs hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Stairs?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 55, 56, 71 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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