Stone · Whiskey Myers

92 bars, 5:24, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
STONE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 26, 30, 49, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-48.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBKLS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stone?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Stone hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Stone?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 26, 30, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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