Taste You · Melissa Auf Der Maur

120 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43-49 and 51-53, and 4 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 131 BPM
TASTE YOU · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 54, 62, 70 and 4 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 83 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-113.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES1BCA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Taste You?

131 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 Taste You hard to play on drums?

50 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Taste You?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 54, 62, 70 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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