Touch, Peel And Stand · Days Of The New

198 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-6, and 27 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
TOUCH, PEEL AND STAND · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 21, 22, 36, 38, 72, 74 and 25 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 15 sections: 128 keep time, 40 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 157-174.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART AB
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGDAHAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Touch, Peel And Stand?

164 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 Touch, Peel And Stand hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Touch, Peel And Stand?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 21, 22, 36, 38, 72, 74 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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