The Warning · bite my tongue

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE WARNING · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 40, 43, 44, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 16 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesDBKS2S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Warning?

88 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 Warning hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Warning?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 40, 43, 44, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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