Stay For Something · CMAT

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STAY FOR SOMETHING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 49, 77, 81, 93, 97 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDBGS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay For Something?

120 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 Stay For Something 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Stay For Something?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 49, 77, 81, 93, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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