T-Shirt Song · Don Broco

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
T-SHIRT SONG · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 22, 26, 44, 48, 52 and 8 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMCS9GS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is T-Shirt Song?

98 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 T-Shirt Song hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 T-Shirt Song?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 22, 26, 44, 48, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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