Still Beating (Guitar) · Mac DeMarco

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6-10 and 13-18, and 6 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
STILL BEATING (GUITAR) · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 2 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-36.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Beating (Guitar)?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Still Beating (Guitar) hard to play on drums?

52 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?

57 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Still Beating (Guitar)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

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