Stay · U2

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-46, 48-51 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
STAY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 79, 95 and 99.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 6 sections: 105 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-46.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE 2
4 groovesAFEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay?

95 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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Stay?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 79, 95 and 99.

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