What Was Really Said · Fleshwater

82 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 and 25-40 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
WHAT WAS REALLY SAID · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 22.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 14 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJEBH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Was Really Said?

127 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 Was Really Said hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Was Really Said?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 22.

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