Stay Close To Me · Bad Brains

88 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:30 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-18, 27-34 and 43-58, and 1 more place -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STAY CLOSE TO ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-18.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesCDFS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay Close To Me?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stay Close To Me hard to play on drums?

47 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?

88 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stay Close To Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

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