The Bidding · Tally Hall

115 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 33-39 and 53-58, and 1 more place -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE BIDDING · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 79, 87, 91, 95, 97, 101 and 2 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 8 are fills, 16 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-62.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
PART B
PART G
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
8 groovesKBGS1A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bidding?

175 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 The Bidding hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Bidding?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 79, 87, 91, 95, 97, 101 and 2 more.

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