Too Much Thinking Makes Me Ill · train breaks down

81 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9-10, and 5 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
TOO MUCH THINKING MAKES ME ILL · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 31, 32, 38, 63 and 80.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesANUACJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Much Thinking Makes Me Ill?

122 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 Too Much Thinking Makes Me Ill hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Too Much Thinking Makes Me Ill?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 31, 32, 38, 63 and 80.

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