Thinking Of You · A Perfect Circle

164 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 18, and 12 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
THINKING OF YOU · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 50, 51, 54, 55, 91 and 21 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 10 sections: 118 keep time, 27 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-48.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIZABF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thinking Of You?

152 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 Thinking Of You hard to play on drums?

55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Thinking Of You?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 50, 51, 54, 55, 91 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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