White Sparrows · Billy Talent

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-22, 38-45 and 48, and 2 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
WHITE SPARROWS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 37 and 53.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-52.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is White Sparrows?

82 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 White Sparrows hard to play on drums?

60 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?

64 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 White Sparrows?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 37 and 53.

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