Your Secret's Safe With Me · 12 RODS

167 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 126-130 and 141-145 -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
YOUR SECRET'S SAFE WITH ME · BAR 128
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 21 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a stop and 100 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-140.

BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 5
BREAK 7
CHORUS 7
BREAK 8
12 groovesBS11S3S20A+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Secret's Safe With Me?

95 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Your Secret's Safe With Me hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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