Stitches · Nervepitch

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 28-30 and 32-34, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
STITCHES · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 26, 38, 42 and 5 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJBOA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stitches?

81 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 Stitches hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stitches?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 26, 38, 42 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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