Useless (Album Version) · Blade and Bath

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36 and 59-61 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
USELESS (ALBUM VERSION) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 66.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 11 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-53.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCEFI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Useless (Album Version)?

80 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 Useless (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Useless (Album Version)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 54 and 66.

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