Stay With Me · Miki Matsubara

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 68-74 and 85-87, and 8 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
STAY WITH ME · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 28, 29, 37, 66, 67 and 11 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLIGAHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stay With Me?

108 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 With Me 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stay With Me?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 28, 29, 37, 66, 67 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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