The Letter · The Box Tops

66 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 1:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19, 28-36 and 45-54 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
THE LETTER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 6 sections: 58 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Letter?

136 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 Letter 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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