Til I Hear It From You · Gin Blossoms

116 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 23, and 5 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
TIL I HEAR IT FROM YOU · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 32, 44 and 14 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 13 sections: 65 keep time, 20 are fills, 12 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-31.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART I
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDIKTM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Til I Hear It From You?

123 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 Til I Hear It From You hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Til I Hear It From You?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 32, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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