Stay · Cueshé

76 bars, 4:03, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 and 33-39 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
STAY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 20 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 12 sections: 29 keep time, 26 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART R
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEACMR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay?

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

Is Stay hard to play on drums?

54 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stay?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 20 more.

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