TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP] · While She Sleeps

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 35, and 21 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TO THE FLOWERS [BEST VERSION WIP] · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 46-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 79 keep time, 26 are fills, 16 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDOTS1A+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP]?

120 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 TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP] hard to play on drums?

57 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?

148 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP]?

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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