Description
Notes From John
BPM = 62, in 4/4. The song opens on a Chorus, and the drums rest through its first nine bars before coming in at mp with hi-hat eighths, the snare on two and four and the kick on one. Verse 1 at 0:50 switches to “cross-stick” on two and four, with the kick on one and three and an open hat at many phrase ends. The Pre-Chorus is marked mf, brings in a crash and open-hat circles, and closes on a crescendo hairpin into the Chorus at f, where the kick moves to dotted-eighth figures under the hats. Verse 3 drops back to mf. The Solo at 4:11 puts quarter-note cymbals over the groove. The Pre-Chorus that follows drops to mp, with a short triplet figure and a bar of rest. The next Chorus starts with three bars of rest, then builds under a hairpin through mf and a printed cresc. into the last Chorus at f. The ending is marked rit. The section boxes carry the record’s timestamps.
For the player
John’s chart follows the 6:25 album track from Nong Ompihna Kicing Hi. Don’t rush the ballad: the tempo is slow, and the fills are written in sixteenths and flams at that tempo. Switch to cross-stick where the verses mark it, and let the dynamics move from mp to f as printed. At BPM = 62 the job is the feel.
Drums Sheet Music for “Itna Langaih” by Sian.
