Swallowed · Bush

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 31-37 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SWALLOWED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 76, 80 and 84.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 45 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS3S6DS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swallowed?

90 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 Swallowed hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Swallowed?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 76, 80 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bush drum parts

EVERY BUSH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →