The Drag · Composers of MSB

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 19-21 and 23-25, and 13 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE DRAG · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 40, 44, 83, 84 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-75.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Drag?

120 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 Drag hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Drag?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 40, 44, 83, 84 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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