We Could Be The Same · maNga

98 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-23, 25-31 and 49-55, and 1 more place -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
WE COULD BE THE SAME · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 3 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 9 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGJDABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Could Be The Same?

133 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 We Could Be The Same hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 We Could Be The Same?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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