Why not? · Siam Shade

158 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47-49 and 51, and 12 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
WHY NOT? · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 17 and 48 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 54 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

PART F
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART Z
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABFZBPP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Why not??

128 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 not? hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 not??

26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 17 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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