Thoughts and Prayers · Inclination

87 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 30, 35 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 12 sections: 36 keep time, 16 are fills, 20 are stops and 6 are silent.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBEABHK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thoughts and Prayers?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Thoughts and Prayers hard to play on drums?

53 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?

87 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Thoughts and Prayers?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 30, 35 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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