Your Pearly Whites · These Arms Are Snakes

166 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-37, 42-47 and 49-53, and 4 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
YOUR PEARLY WHITES · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 24, 58, 60, 62, 63 and 19 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 62-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 18 sections: 115 keep time, 25 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART AB
OUTRO
16 groovesGBKFAB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Pearly Whites?

124 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 Your Pearly Whites hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Your Pearly Whites?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 24, 58, 60, 62, 63 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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