What Goes Around Comes Around · Catch 22

90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 17 and 19, and 7 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 16, 28, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 13 sections: 55 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBNHL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Goes Around Comes Around?

120 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 What Goes Around Comes Around hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 What Goes Around Comes Around?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 14, 15, 16, 28, 32 and 10 more.

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