What You Make It · With Confidence

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-17 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
WHAT YOU MAKE IT · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 41, 45, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 12 sections: 34 keep time, 12 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFNS1S10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What You Make It?

90 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 You Make It hard to play on drums?

43 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 You Make It?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 41, 45, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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