10 A.M. Automatic · The Black Keys

90 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-25 and 47-61 -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
10 A.M. AUTOMATIC · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 82 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 10 A.M. Automatic?

123 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 10 A.M. Automatic hard to play on drums?

34 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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