Television/So Far So Good · Rex Orange County

100 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 31-32 and 55-58, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 166 BPM
TELEVISION/SO FAR SO GOOD · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 22, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 15 sections: 71 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGBFLK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Television/So Far So Good?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Television/So Far So Good 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Television/So Far So Good?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 22, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

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