With Arms Wide Open · Creed

73 bars, 4:10, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 43, and 5 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 11 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-35.

COUNT-IN
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCUS1A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is With Arms Wide Open?

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

Is With Arms Wide Open hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 With Arms Wide Open?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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