心太軟 Too softhearted · Richie Jen

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-15, 22-33 and 37-60, and 1 more place -- 89.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 93 BPM
心太軟 TOO SOFTHEARTED · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 4 sections: 127 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-131.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 心太軟 Too softhearted?

93 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 心太軟 Too softhearted hard to play on drums?

40 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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.

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