What You're Afraid Of · BIS

86 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33, 35-49 and 51-73, and 1 more place -- 91% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WHAT YOU'RE AFRAID OF · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 6 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a fill and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-49.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1ES3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What You're Afraid Of?

110 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're Afraid Of hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in What You're Afraid Of?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

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