Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up · Them Crooked Vultures

250 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 9:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
9:21
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 157-163, 189-199 and 201-203, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
WARSAW OR THE FIRST BREATH YOU TAKE AFTER YOU GIVE UP · BAR 157
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 14, 18, 19, 23, 26 and 20 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 20 sections: 189 keep time, 27 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 190-227.

PART E
PART E
PART U
PART AA
PART AL
PART AO
PART AO
CHORUS 2
15 groovesASAOALEB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 9:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 14, 18, 19, 23, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
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