The Present · Bloc Party

174 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-111 -- 63.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE PRESENT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 136 and 4 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 4 sections: 160 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-111.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Present?

150 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 Present hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Present?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 136 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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