tv off · Kendrick Lamar

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 30-36 and 38-40 -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TV OFF · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 81 and 83.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 13 sections: 59 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-40.

CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
12 groovesBAS12ES5+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is tv off?

100 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 tv off hard to play on drums?

30 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in tv off?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 81 and 83.

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