The Stag · HENRII

96 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 129 BPM
THE STAG · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 89 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-57.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Stag?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Stag hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Stag?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 96.

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