True Friendship · IONS

226 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16 and 53-63 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TRUE FRIENDSHIP · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44 and 74 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 18 sections: 102 keep time, 80 are fills, 7 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-141.

PART B
PART C
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART AQ
PART AW
PART BL
17 groovesAOAWCBBL+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is True Friendship?

130 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 True Friendship hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 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 True Friendship?

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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