Talking With You · Sicada

89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 2:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 19, and 3 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TALKING WITH YOU · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 39 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 8 sections: 29 keep time, 45 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-67.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesREYLS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talking With You?

95 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Talking With You hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Talking With You?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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