Thinking Straight · Youth Of Today

74 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-54, 56-62 and 64-67 -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THINKING STRAIGHT · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 18 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 4 sections: 44 keep time, 24 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-62.

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

Questions

What BPM is Thinking Straight?

110 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 Straight hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

74 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Thinking Straight?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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