Wristwatch · MJ Lenderman

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 34 and 36-40, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
WRISTWATCH · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 3, 21, 32, 33, 35 and 4 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-20.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wristwatch?

97 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 Wristwatch hard to play on drums?

44 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Wristwatch?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 3, 21, 32, 33, 35 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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