Who We Are · Hozier

57 bars, 3:02, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27 -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
WHO WE ARE · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 52 and 56.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-27.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who We Are?

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

Is Who We Are hard to play on drums?

36 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Who We Are?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 52 and 56.

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