Ugly People · Arranged in april

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21-23, and 12 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
UGLY PEOPLE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 18 and 24.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-51.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ugly People?

108 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 Ugly People hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ugly People?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 18 and 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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