Why Me · Blood On The Rock

66 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 23-30 and 41-48, and 1 more place -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WHY ME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 65-66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why Me?

120 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 Why Me 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Me?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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