Such Small Hands · La Dispute

32 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 1:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcorePunkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 21-22 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SUCH SMALL HANDS · BARS 13-14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 30, 31 and 32.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 30-32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 5 sections: 18 keep time, 4 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHS1BKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Such Small Hands?

80 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 Such Small Hands hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Such Small Hands?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 30, 31 and 32.

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