Surf · Mac Miller

76 bars, 4:12, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-12 and 30-32, and 12 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
SURF · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 74, 75 and 76.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 73-76 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 4 sections: 64 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-72.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surf?

72 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 Surf hard to play on drums?

44 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 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 Surf?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 74, 75 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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