Staying Still · Noah Kahan

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
STAYING STILL · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 16 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 22-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 78-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 48 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-21.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
PART E
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBACLEN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Staying Still?

83 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 Still hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Staying Still?

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 and 16 more.

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