What If · Creed

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-44, 46-48 and 50-54 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
WHAT IF · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29 and 9 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 15 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-54.

PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesKCEGQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What If?

102 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 If hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 What If?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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