Why I Like The Robins · Hum

187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 4:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 11 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
WHY I LIKE THE ROBINS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 37 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 30-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 17 sections: 122 keep time and 43 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 172-187.

CHORUS
PART D
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART Q
PART AE
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCDQAUM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why I Like The Robins?

115 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Why I Like The Robins hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Why I Like The Robins?

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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