This World (drum) · Selah Sue

158 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 17-50, and 5 more places -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 136 BPM
THIS WORLD (DRUM) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 135.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 135 · LANDS ON BAR 136
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 11 sections: 117 keep time, 1 is a fill, 28 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-49.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
6 groovesBAS10S4S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This World (drum)?

136 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 This World (drum) hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This World (drum)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 135.

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