Stonecutters · Dope Lemon

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-35 and 37-43, and 7 more places -- 83.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
STONECUTTERS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 64.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 4 sections: 72 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-48.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stonecutters?

78 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 Stonecutters hard to play on drums?

39 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Stonecutters?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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