Who's Having Fun? · Drain

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-50, 52 and 54, and 13 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WHO'S HAVING FUN? · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 21-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 64 keep time, 18 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-50.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMDTS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who's Having Fun??

100 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 Who's Having Fun? hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Who's Having Fun??

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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