What It Cost & Like a Villain · Bad Omens

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
WHAT IT COST & LIKE A VILLAIN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 46, 50, 64 and 7 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 14 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-18.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesJCEPS7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What It Cost & Like a Villain?

77 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 It Cost & Like a Villain hard to play on drums?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 It Cost & Like a Villain?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 46, 50, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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