Thank You · Dido

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-28, 31-37 and 39-70 -- 98.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THANK YOU · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-70.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thank You?

80 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 Thank You hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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