The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot · Brand New

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19-21 and 25-27, and 4 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE BOY WHO BLOCKED HIS OWN SHOT · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 24, 34, 55, 56, 61 and 3 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-94.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCJABS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot?

90 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 The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot hard to play on drums?

32 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 24, 34, 55, 56, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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