Still Winning · Intervals, Samuel Mezzo

81 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 34-36 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
STILL WINNING · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 43 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 11-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 24 keep time, 49 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

CHORUS
PART N
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAADAMNAS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Winning?

145 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 Still Winning hard to play on drums?

63 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Still Winning?

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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