WILL U STILL U · Jeff Rosenstock

92 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-87 -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WILL U STILL U · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 6 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART B
PART F
PART G
PART M
PART R
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVBAFGF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is WILL U STILL U?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 WILL U STILL U hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 17 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 WILL U STILL U?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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