White Horse · Chris Stapleton

76 bars, 4:07, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 52 and 67-70 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
WHITE HORSE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42 and 7 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 30-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 13 sections: 44 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART M
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCMRDI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Horse?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is White Horse hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 White Horse?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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