Staying On My Mind · PACMAR

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 9 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
STAYING ON MY MIND · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 13, 25, 34, 35, 36 and 3 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-62.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIASH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Staying On My Mind?

86 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 Staying On My Mind hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Staying On My Mind?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 13, 25, 34, 35, 36 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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